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Thank you so much.. Both are programs are running well on small set. When I am trying to run it on 111000 rows its taking more than 2 hours..its still running.

Any suggestion on how to speed up?

Thanks,

Diya
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Old 07-12-2011
the nawk version is? hmm. could probably do it in C..
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