Hi,

A practical Pattern matching query seems to be catching me out.

I have a large text file (over a gig in size), each line has <CS_REFCLT>12526489</CS_REFCLT> in it some where. I would like to get at the number in between the tags but as the line is not fixed position I can't use substr to get at it. I have got around this by using split like below.

while (my $line = <SESAME>){

  my ($tempa, $tempb)     = split (/<CS_REFCLT>/,$line)    
  my ($value, $tempc) = split (/<\/CS_REFCLT>/,$tempb);

}
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However, I'd like this also as a pattern match so that I can compare speeds and speed up the program, as I think a regular expression will be quicker.

Therefore a pattern match snippet of code for this would be much appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Ant

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