Seek the one billionth line in a file containing 3 billion lines.

Méta-MCI (MVP) enleverlesX.XmcX at XmclaveauX.com
Wed Aug 8 03:54:26 EDT 2007


Hi!

Create a "index" (a file with 3,453,299,000 tuples : 
line_number + start_byte) ; this file has fix-length lines.
slow, OK, but once.

Then, for every consult/read a specific line:
  - direct acces read on index
  - seek at the fisrt byte of the line desired



@+

Michel Claveau





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