I'm actually working on a rather complex module to handle this type of thing. I guess I gave the impression that a sound entry was the only type of data object in the file. In fact it is a self referential nested tree with many types of objects...

:)

I could, however, slurp a line at a time until the line was ^\s*Sound$ then make sure the next line was correct, check if the name matched (and steal the white space). Finally I'd check the next line and either add a priority line or update it. I could write each line right back out to the output file as I go.

That's a much better approach and much less prone to bugs (and it would work around the reg-ex memory leak in 5.8.2).

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: RegEx on 4MB file consumes of 2GB of ram before windows shuts it down (Memory Leak in 5.8.2) by Ardemus
in thread RegEx on 4MB file consumes of 2GB of ram before windows shuts it down (Memory Leak in 5.8.2) by Ardemus

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