Re: Matching Over Multiple Lines

2009-03-17 Thread John W. Krahn
Jeff Westman wrote: All, Hello, I know this has been asked many times, and I have read the documentation ("perldoc -q "matching over more than one line") and still can't make head or tails out of this. I have a problem where my pattern can be in one line, or span multiple lines. This is wha

Re: Matching Over Multiple Lines

2009-03-17 Thread Chas. Owens
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:55, Bob McConnell wrote: > From: Chas. Owens >> >> Perl doesn't start having problems with files until you start getting >> into areas that the OS has problems with those files.  Your machine, >> however, may have problems if it does not have enough memory.  I >> remembe

RE: Matching Over Multiple Lines

2009-03-17 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Chas. Owens > > Perl doesn't start having problems with files until you start getting > into areas that the OS has problems with those files. Your machine, > however, may have problems if it does not have enough memory. I > remember working on a production machine that only had eight megab

Re: Matching Over Multiple Lines

2009-03-17 Thread Chas. Owens
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:39, Jim Gibson wrote: snip > A file of length 10MB should be no problem for Perl. snip Perl doesn't start having problems with files until you start getting into areas that the OS has problems with those files. Your machine, however, may have problems if it does not ha

Re: Matching Over Multiple Lines

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Gibson
On 3/17/09 Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:45 AM, "Jeff Westman" scribbled: > All, > > I know this has been asked many times, and I have read the documentation > ("perldoc -q "matching over more than one line") and still can't make head > or tails out of this. > > I have a problem where my pattern can be