I'm a C/C++ programmer, with a perl script I'm trying to optimize. I
don't know enough about perl syntax and string/buffer handling
functions to feel comfortable doing this on my own. I imagine adding
some 'regular expressions' would be ideal, in place of my while()
loop. If anyone wouldn't mind
Thanks to all who replied. I figured reading (and writing) one byte
at a time was the bottleneck, but mostly I'm not familiar with perl's
buffer handling functions/methods... I just knew enough to compare one
byte at a time at least (and I guess even that wasn't optimal since I
was using "eq" inst
