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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Searching large file
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.003742.16051@pegasus.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 00:37:42 GMT
Reply-To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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I need to search a large file or two for a text string.  What is the
fastest way to search a large file for the first occurance of some
random string and return its location?

Nothing I've tried has been very fast.


Thanks.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com