From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-08-30T04:11:45+09:00
Subject: Re: File read progress

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 03:55:28 +0900, JG <perfyct@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hopefully this is an easy one...
> 
> I'm processing a very large file into a hash and would like to have a status
> message telling me how far along it is (i.e. 30% processed...).  What I
> would like to do is:
> 
> 1) find out how many times a keyword is found in this file (since this is a
> big file I don't want to have to iterate twice, once for total keywords and
> once for storing the records associated with them), or
> 2) query the filehandle to tell me where I am at with respect to the total
> file size.

As long as your file read routine is written to take a hash, then you
should have no problem. I recommend using progressbar.rb on RAA to
make your progress bar, though.

Note: I'm pretty sure that 0.8.0 isn't the ideal version, because I
think it added some Windows incompatibilities; I need to check and
send a patch to the maintainter.

-austin
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