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Well no, its just that if you use a big huge complex machine to do the work that you could do with a knife that you arent being efficient.

And split does use the regex engine, its just it uses it in special ways to be efficient.

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

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Re^8: Suggestion for regular expression speed improvement.
by bala.linux (Novice) on Jun 15, 2009 at 18:11 UTC
    Yes. My initial idea was to keep CSV, RE parsing separate but I thought may be If could get the same performance from RE, then need not to have a CSV parser. But now I understand that is not possible to think of. So, need to switch back to my old approach where I do two parsing separately. So, from the user interface user will have simple/advanced parsing modes. Thanks for your suggestion.
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      Dont forget unpack. For fixed width fields its pretty much the fastest choice you have. And many logfiles are fixed width.

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