tom arnall wrote: >> What about streams then? > > please tell me how that would work? i'm not familiar with the mechanism.
You could open a file as a stream (or a buffer, it is the same thing), read it in chunks of reasonable length (maximum length you expect the longest regex match would span), and advance by one char, for example. Something like this... |----------- $number of chars -----------|----------- -|----------- $number of chars -----------|---------- --|----------- $number of chars -----------|--------- ---|----------- $number of chars -----------|-------- There are many ways to implement this and similar algorithms. Google for perl, buffers, streams, and regexes to locate examples. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
