in reply to Re^2: Slow find/replace hex in Perl win32
in thread Slow find/replace hex in Perl win32

You're right. That's a typo. It takes five minutes when writing the data back to the disk. 

[22:01:55.40] C:\test>perl -pe "s/\x00\x42\x00\x11/\x00\x42\x00\xf0/sg
+" 834245.masks >junk.dat

[22:06:46.76] C:\test>perl -pe "s/\x00\x42\x00\x11/\x00\x42\x00\xf0/sg
+" 834245.masks >junk.dat

[22:09:31.99] C:\test>

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