[MacPerl] Searching a VERY large text file

[Shyam Hegde <dev@cequel.co.uk>]

I have moved my project on and am finding MacPerl a very powerful tool -
Thanks Matthias!!

I have two really large text files (6 & 9meg) each containing over 170,000
lines of text (they contain semantic information about every word/phrase in
the English language).

Is there a fast way in Perl/MacPerl to search these files for a particular
string??  The Camel book seemed to suggest using Hashes, but doesn't go
into detail and using the standard 'Open' and <shove into array> requires
MacPerl to have 20Mbytes of RAM assigned to it and me to wait a very long
time.

If anyone has had a similar experience or knows the answer off the top of
their heads then I would really appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks,

Shyam.

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