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Re: perl's ability to handle LARGE filesby pboin (Deacon) |
on Nov 28, 2005 at 16:54 UTC ( [id://512276]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Can you do this? Yes. Should you? Maybe not. Regular expressions are very powerful. So powerful that they can bite you in nasty ways unless you *really* understand what you're asking for. Judging from your question, I'd suggest you shy away from regex for this volume of data, and maybe write non-regex code to get the job done. For the tip of the iceberg, SuperSearch on "regex performance" and do some reading...
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