On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Chris Stinemetz
<chrisstinem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am working on a script to parse large files, by large I mean 4 million
> line+ in length and when splitting on the delimiter ( ; ) there are close
> to 300 fields per record, but I am only interested in the first 44.
Consider pre-processing your input with the 'cut' shell utility, something like:
cut -f1-45 -d';' $FILE
That'll cut down on the amount of data you're shoving through Perl.
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