How do you read / open a Zone file???

Krossat · 04-07-2008, 12:18 PM

I recently downloaded a .net zone file and its like 900 MB.
When i went ahead and tried opening it in notepad, it gave me an error.
Tried with wordpad and it gave me a virtual memory error, which nearly stalled my puter.

I was just wondering how does one read a zone file; is there a line editor/reader of the sorts? And also if u have scripted / programmed to read a zone file, how do you open it all; all at once or is there a line read technique again?

Thanks,
Kross.

sdsinc · 04-07-2008, 01:03 PM

The best would be to write a script for that purpose.
Analyze the first 100 lines for example and you will easily understand the format. Then you can begin parsing.

Krossat · 04-07-2008, 01:12 PM

Thanks Kath,
Yes your right it makes more sense to read a line at a time and then filter it wrt your search parameter / mask i guess.

I tried a large txt file reader but 26+ million lines is helluva lot without a search filter script of some kind

Thanks again,
Kross.

Yofie · 04-07-2008, 06:10 PM

With DRT, you can split up the files into smaller ones as well.

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