Seek the one billionth line in a file containing 3 billion lines.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:54:26 +0200, Méta-MCI \(MVP\) wrote:

> Create a "index" (a file with 3,453,299,000 tuples : 
> line_number + start_byte) ; this file has fix-length lines.
> slow, OK, but once.

Why storing the line number?  The first start offset is for the first
line, the second start offset for the second line and so on.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch