Re: build array of geometry data

If your files get very large, then slurping them into memory to parse can be memory intensive. This solution processes the file line-by-line and uses a running buffer to parse it.

Code

#! perl -slw
use strict;

my @arrays;
my $buf ='';
while($buf .= <DATA>) {
    push(@arrays, [ split(' ',$1) ])
    , $buf = $2
        while $buf =~ /\[([^]]+)\](.*$)/g;
}
print do{ local $"=','; "[@$_]" } for @arrays;

__DATA__
[1 1 1 1 1 1] [4 4 4 4 4 4]


[ 123 123 123
  123 123 123
  123 123 123
]


"P"
[ -1 1 1
  1 1 -1
  1 1 1 ]
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Output

c:\test>234118
[1,1,1,1,1,1]
[4,4,4,4,4,4]
[123,123,123,123,123,123,123,123,123]
[-1,1,1,1,1,-1,1,1,1]
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