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Re: parsing a large text file

Subject: Re: parsing a large text file
From: Kevin Bradley <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 15:12:20 -0500
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On Jul 8, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Emmanuel wrote:

What version of AppleScript do you have?  Did you mean 32mb or 32k?
Older version of AppleScript had a 32k limit.  If you're reading 32
_MB_ then you're reading a HUGE file by AS standards, and it will
take a VERY long time to parse.


Not a VERY long time in my understanding. In my very limited
experience I would say (of course YMMVM) a few seconds if you use the
fastest shell tools such as grep, or Satimage osax (ASCII) or Smile
(Unicode.) More seconds if you have to use the slower shell tools
such as sed awk etc. (in the sense of "et cetera").

I was speaking of parsing in AS only. Yes, the shell tools are MUCH faster at this sort of thing.

Kevin Bradley
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