Thanks for giving my "wouldn't it be cool if..." the full treatment.

In the meantime, I suppose we'll have to: 

open my $ifh, '<', $filename
  or die "Cannot open '$filename' for reading: $!";
local $/;
foreach my $chunk ( split /Separator\s+\d+/, scalar(<$ifh>) ) {
  # yay chunk!
}

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Unfortunately this will not do well for very large files. We'd have to check against the regexp as each byte is read into memory. 

# I might be way off-base here:
no warnings 'uninitialized';
my $pattern = qr{Separator\s\d+};
my $callback = sub { warn "Chunk: @_" };
binmode($ifh);
my $offset = 0;
my $buffer = '';
while( sysread($ifh, my $byte, 1, $offset++) ) {
  $buffer .= $byte;
  if( $buffer =~ $pattern ) {
    $callback->( $buffer );
    $buffer = '';
  }
}

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Even that won't work correctly, and it would be really, really slow.

I only wrote it here for the sake of discussion.

In reply to Re^3: Usage of regular expressions in input separator by jdrago999
in thread Usage of regular expressions in input separator by archer

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