in reply to Multiline RegExp. A Better Way?

This one is light on memory, and does not need modules .

Basically, it uses the "Pass #" as a record delimiter.

use strict; use warnings; my $file = "data1.txt"; local $/ = "\nPass #"; open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Can't open $file: $!"; while ( <$fh>){ print join(",", m/(\d+).*? ^Elapsed\ Time\s+:\s+([\d\.]+).*? ^CPU\ Time\s+:\s+([\d\.]+).*? ^Virtual\ memory\ size\s+:\s+([\d\.]+).*? ^Resident\ set\ size\s+:\s+([\d\.]+).*? ^Major\ page\ faults\s+:\s+([\d\.]+) /msgcx) , "\n"; } close $fh;

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