Re: Record Separator affecting Regex

The problem is that comments and statements are terminated by two different things, and you can expect to see the two types of elements intermingled.

What I would do, if the file isn't grotesquely huge, is read it all into $_, remove the comments, and then split.

    $_ = <DATA>;
    s/^#.*//gm;           # <b>updated</b>
    my @lines = split /;\n+/;
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Re: Re: Record Separator affecting Regex by Kozz (Friar) on Nov 07, 2002 at 19:30 UTC
Yes, this would have been much easier, but unfortunately, the file is 23MB uncompressed. :( But thanks for the info - that's another way I might have tried had the file been smaller.	[reply]