I want to avoid reading in the entire file, since I am under the impression that I can save memory that way, and it is very easy to let Perl take care of where in the string I am (tell), let me step through it (read) and jump to where I need to be (seek). All of this is possible, I'm sure, in a string, but I'm guessing not as easy.

Whether or not you are allowed to match via a pointer, I don't know. It isn't breaking anything, it just isn't working. I am not sure why it is not working, but I am under the impression that it is matching on the first record ID over and over again, and never moving on.

I could be wrong. I'll play some more and see.

-Travis
v2:

Okay, no, I can't match via the file handle. I can do <FIN>=~m//g;, but I imagine that is because it reads <FIN> into $_ and then does the m//g, which means I am reading in the entire file anyway! Nothing saved there, might as well read it all into $str.

-Travis

In reply to Parsing and \G and /g and Stupid User Tricks: $fileHandle =~ m//g;: v2 by THuG
in thread Parsing and \G and /g and Stupid User Tricks by THuG

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