Re^2: Dealing with huge text string

If by "each record is 164 characters long", our friend Phil really meant that each record is 164 bytes long, than Browser's solution would be fine.

It was

Six hours of research to find a semantic quibble for a problem that was solved five hours ago?

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

"Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."

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Re^3: Dealing with huge text string by mobiusinversion (Beadle) on Mar 29, 2008 at 07:02 UTC
Ah young Browser, wide characters are no laughing matter! Have you ever done any web programming? If so then you'll have run into wide chracters when using HTML entities. How about this, try this code and witness the power of wide characters, which really do exist! `use LWP::UserAgent; open($F, '>:utf8' , 'wide-chars-example.html'); $url = 'http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp'; $html = LWP::UserAgent->new()->get($url)->content; print $F $html;` [download] Now open the newly made file using your method... Try: `your_method: { local $/ = 2; #open 'wide-chars-example.html', process the 'records' }` [download] You'll get an interesting surprise! Take care!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Dealing with huge text string by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 29, 2008 at 09:15 UTC
Of course they do. I deal with them all the time...when I have to. But I do not waste effort supporting the two greatest evils in software development today--What-if pessimism and Wouldn't-it-be-nice-if optimism--in one-liners that run for a few seconds and may never be used again. Let's see. My response was posted 4 minutes after the question was asked--and it worked. Yours came 6 hours later. By my reckoning, assuming a very conservative 7 hour day--760 / 4 = 105 6 / 24 = 90 days--on that showing it would take you 3 months to what I would do in a day? Nah! That can't be right. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]