Posted on 08/02/2004 7:42:09 PM PDT by sharktrager
OK...I need help.
I have a HUGE (320MB) text file I need to pare down to a workable size. It is a government data dump so, of course, it has a ton of useless data burying the data I need.
What I need to do first, and foremost, is just get rid of the dang quotation marks filling empty fields.
Here's the problem. No matter what program I open it with, it puts so much demand on my PC that I can barely load the thing, let alone start the clean-up.
As for the obvious things:
1) No, they can't resend it in a few smaller files. They are the government and they are not here to help me.
2) I can't break it apart myself. If I could cut and paste that much the replacement I am trying wouldn't be a problem.
Sooooo...any ideas? I already have 512MB memory, and have tried ramping up the virtual memory, and it is a no go.
Anyone have any ideas?
A simple bash shell script should work fairly well.
I bet you could hear the "huh?" all the way there.
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/john
That did the trick.
Thanks.
No problem.
Download a freeware file splitter/joiner program and split it into smaller chunks at the file level. Open each one separately and edit it then save it. Then use the file splitter/joiner to join them back up.
Ooops. I see you already found one.
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