He/She did not understand the scope of the request. Probably the posted request was not too clear.

I don't want to match things on a line by line only and I don't want to modify $/ to read other types of chunks of text. Just set $/= undef.

The deeper problem is how to apply a regular expression with multiple matches options to a stream so I don't have to load large pieces of the file and to re-start the reglar expression if it fails.

So far one of the suggestions makes possible sense... if the regex engine can be tricked into working with an expanding buffer.

Sergio

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Regexing an input stream... by sergio
in thread Regexing an input stream... by sergio

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