Re: Problem with reading file and executing other stuffs?

[Horinius]

Hugh Sasse wrote:
> 
> And vi warns about it in a similar way to ed.
> 
> Again, what problem are you trying to solve, if any?  
> 
I'm doing some processing in a big file which is well formatted.  It's sort
of a database table (or a CVS file if you like).  Every line contains a
unique element that determines what should be done.  Of course, I could go a
grep on the file to find out the elements, but this would give a complexity
of O(n^2).

I know that every line is processed only once, and the pointer to the
current line will never go back.  So I figure out that I could read every
line in an array element and I could process line by line.  This would give
a O(n) which is much faster.

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