Re: Searching in binary files

You could do this:

local $/ = "find this string";

while (<FILE>)
{
    if ( chomp )
    {
        # you know you found an occurrence
    }
}
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Re^2: Searching in binary files by graff (Chancellor) on Dec 15, 2005 at 06:47 UTC
That is rather a nice idea, except: whether one really could do this depends on file size, and whether the process happens to reach either the target string or end-of-file before it runs out of memory.	[reply]
Re^2: Searching in binary files by crenz (Priest) on Dec 15, 2005 at 07:45 UTC
That looks rather nice -- but unfortunately, it is rather slow also... I'm dealing with files that could potentially be hundreds of megabytes in size.	[reply]