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in thread Possible to have regexes act on file directly (not in memory)

Did anyone read this thread before posting?

Or even tried following the links provided, leading to answers already given 13 years ago?

To say it plain, this theoretical idea of regexes creating unlimited matches is bullshit academic masturbation.

If the match is indeed too large to hold two chunks in memory (which have to be individually bigger than the maximal match), in what way do you expect to be able to process this match???

Truth is it's far harder to construct problems which can't be solved with sliding windows, then just to solve the real world tasks.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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PS: If a little boy asks for a birthday cake bigger than any building on earth, do you really honestly start discussing where to find suitable candles?

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    Re^4: Possible to have regexes act on file directly (RTFT)
    by Nocturnus (Scribe) on May 09, 2014 at 07:47 UTC

      No, it's not academic masturbation.

      This is not the first time I would need such thing due to a concrete real-world-problem.

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