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  "id": 2202,
  "title": "Editor for huge files",
  "url": "/competitions/Raising-Money-to-Fund-an-Organizational-Mission/discussion/2202",
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  "post_date": "2012-07-19T19:57:31.347Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hi, since the number of lines is very large in the provided files, it is not possible to open them in Excel. &nbsp;Usually I use Notepad&#43;&#43; as my text editor, but it can't open big files either.</p>\r\n<p>What editor do you use to open such big files (up to 6GB and millions of rows) ?</p>",
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      "id": "12465",
      "postDate": "07/19/2012 19:57:31",
      "content": "<p>Hi, since the number of lines is very large in the provided files, it is not possible to open them in Excel. &nbsp;Usually I use Notepad&#43;&#43; as my text editor, but it can't open big files either.</p>\r\n<p>What editor do you use to open such big files (up to 6GB and millions of rows) ?</p>",
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      "id": "12466",
      "postDate": "07/19/2012 20:37:03",
      "content": "<p>Try http://www.vim.org/download.php</p>",
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      "id": "12782",
      "postDate": "07/30/2012 02:12:26",
      "content": "<p>this is excellent as well</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor</a></p>",
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      "id": "12805",
      "postDate": "07/31/2012 00:48:07",
      "content": "<p>For these kinds of datasets, I highly recommend importing the CSV into sqlite -</p>\r\n<p>It's not an &quot;editor&quot;, but learning to navigate this through SQL is immensely useful.</p>",
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      "id": 12466,
      "author_name": "sirguessalot",
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      "post_date": "07/19/2012 20:37:03",
      "content": "<p>Try http://www.vim.org/download.php</p>",
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      "id": 12782,
      "author_name": "learn2learn",
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      "post_date": "07/30/2012 02:12:26",
      "content": "<p>this is excellent as well</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor</a></p>",
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      "id": 12805,
      "author_name": "jmalicki",
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      "post_date": "07/31/2012 00:48:07",
      "content": "<p>For these kinds of datasets, I highly recommend importing the CSV into sqlite -</p>\r\n<p>It's not an &quot;editor&quot;, but learning to navigate this through SQL is immensely useful.</p>",
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