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Waste of memory? Memory is there to be used ... what are you saving it for?

seriously? This entire "program" is a joke -- grep does it already

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Re^5: How to print the lines immediately above and below a matching line?
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Nov 25, 2012 at 19:16 UTC

    I'm not talking about this program specifically, I was simply responding to the "a waste of memory" statement.

    ...roboticus

    When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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      I'm not talking about this program specifically, I was simply responding to the "a waste of memory" statement.

      Yes, you were purposefully being obtuse -- sure memory is free and there to be used, but so what? doesn't mean every little program should slurp files for the fun of it to avoid an extra 5 lines of code

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Re^5: How to print the lines immediately above and below a matching line?
by Kenosis (Priest) on Nov 25, 2012 at 23:48 UTC

    Unless I'm mistaken, the Solaris grep doesn't support -B -A or -C and there's no native grep on Windows.

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      Unless I'm mistaken, the Solaris grep doesn't support -B -A or -C and there's no native grep on Windows.

      I don't see how that is relevant, gnu grep supports it and is available for every platform, including solaris and windows

      Also, ack is egrep

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        I don't see how that is relevant, gnu grep supports it and is available for every platform, including solaris and windows

        Also, ack is egrep

        This topic is Bio90's very first request for assistance at PerlMonks. Wouldn't it have been more helpful to have just directly offered grep as a better solution?

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