Re: Halve the difference

[VSarkiss]

in reply to Halve the difference
in thread Removing old records from log files

Very clever, tachyon ++. I first thought "How do you do binary search in a file with variable-length records?" Your answer is simple and effective.

Please consider linking to this from Tutorials.

[tachyon]

I have wrapped the concept in a module with a variety of useful widgets. It's at File::Seek

cheers

tachyon

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