hmm, I didn't specify multiple start/stops in the string that will be given, but in the application, this is very much a possibility (and is really the norm) of what you will find, I actually, after all this, split the string I get at the END match. to make an array of these buggers.

The test example was pretty simplified, but in the Real World use of this, different START and END patterns are used, and these START and END parts are needed later down the line.

Thanks for all your help so far, I've found that this may not have been the crux of my script slowness, even though this actual parsing of chunks 'o text isn't very optimized, the swubroutine that this is housed is never called more than it needs to.

but still, converse among yourselves :)

 

-justin simoni
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In reply to Re: Re: Efficiently Extracting a Range of Lines (was: Range This) by skazat
in thread Efficiently Extracting a Range of Lines (was: Range This) by skazat

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