in reply to Displaying/buffering huge text files
Instead of indexing every single line, you could index a fraction of them (say every 10th or every 25th) and just skip a few lines after seeking.
If they want to see line 57, seek to line 50 using your index, and skip 7 lines after reading.
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Re^2: Displaying/buffering huge text files
by spurperl (Priest) on Feb 23, 2005 at 15:57 UTC |
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