s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:Sorry. It just seems (to an old C programmer) that this is pretty simple problem, unless there's some tricky detail that you aren't telling us.That's exactly what I was thinking looking at the problem. No offence
None taken.
meant to the OP, but this sounds like a trivial problem for perl. We must be missing something.
Yes. It is the scale of the problem.
Man, does C++ produce ugly, obtuse code (no offence meant to C++ code posters; thanks), and this from a perl programmer.
The problem may be quite trivial in the languages you mention as far as the mechanics of reading of lines from a file are concerned. However, the experiments under question (for which I am writing the code) involve reading large number of files which may be huge in size (thousands of lines and many numbers on each line in each file). For that, I very much doubt languages like Perl or Python are going to outperform C or C++ in efficiency.
Had I been sure to get the same efficiency with Perl or bash or Python (awk, sed, cut, and so on ... ), I would have taken that route.
Like they say, right tool for the right job .... ->HS