Is it possible to jump ahead and not read from the beginning?

[xiaodaigh]

I note the README has this passage

Note that there is no facility at the moment to jump and read a subset of rows. Currently, SASLib always read from the beginning.

But is it technically possible to jump ahead and read from a certain row? I think it's related to #5

[tk3369]

That's right. I think it's possible but it hasn't been a priority so far. Do you have a use case other than just making read-performance awesome?

[xiaodaigh]

I want to utilise multi-processing so that each process can process one chunk of data.

[tbeason]

Any new thoughts on this? Could the logic from CSV.jl, which also has native multi-threading now, be helpful here?

[calebwin]

Even if the reading logic could be modified so that it still scans the whole file but it only allocates memory for the given range, that would be really awesome!