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Issues with parsing huge file
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Mar 28, 2011 12:12 PM
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I'm parsing a document and writing to disk pairs such as these ones:
0 vs 1, true
0 vs 2, false
0 vs 3, true
1 vs 2, true
1 vs 3, false
..
and so on.
Successively i'm balancing the trues and falses rows for each instance, by removing random lines (lines with true value if they exceed, and viceversa) and I end up with a file such as this one:
0 vs 1 true
0 vs 2 false
1 vs 2 true
1 vs 3 true
1 vs 4 false
1 vs 5 false
The falses are usually much much more than trues, so in the previous example, I could keep only 1 false for isntance 0, and only 2 falses for instance 1.
I'm doing this process in 2 steps, before parsing and then balancing.
Now, my issue is that the unbalanced file is too big: more than 1GB, and most of its rows are going to be removed by the balancing step.
My question is: can I balance the rows while parsing ?
My guess is no, because I don't know which items are arriving and I can't delete any row until when all rows for a specific instance have been discovered.
I hope it is clear.
thanks
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