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in thread Slow find/replace hex in Perl win32

perl -e"BEGIN{ $/ = \65536 }" -pe "s/\x00\x42\x00\x11/\x00\x42\x00\xf0
+/sgx"

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And what if the four byte pattern crosses the 65536 byte boundary?    Oops.     :-)

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Re^5: Slow find/replace hex in Perl win32
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 29, 2010 at 22:02 UTC

    It was only a test to see if the file lacked appropriate line terminators. Not a solution.

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