"Alex Ezell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Thanks to everyone for the help. My coworker seems to really prefer > doing it via some system call. > > She seems to think it's possible quickly with csplit, which I've > never > used. I'll be investigating it in the morning, because she's really > good at what she does. :)
yes, csplit can do it too, as could awk,ml or sed or several other Unix tools. And if quick is quick to qwrite then using the shell is certainly best. Csplit again still has to read the whole file so it won't be massively quicker than any other method however. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
