Brandon and Jim, Thank you for the replies. They were very helpful. I have gotten past my blockage.
Eric On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Brandon McCaig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:59 PM, ERIC KRAUSE <erickra...@bft1.org> wrote: >> The problem for me is the line endings I think. When I open the >> file and read in one line, I get the whole file. I think the >> line endings are ^p (MS paragraph markers), but I can't open >> the file to view them. The files are huge, 150M or bigger. MS >> Word chokes on them. > *snip* >> Is there a way for me to search the entire 150M single line and >> get the metrics I'm looking for, or is it possible to open the >> file, search for the 30 spaces and replace with \n? > > 150M single line? Do you mean a single line is 150 megabytes or > did you mean something else? > > Assuming sensible line lengths you could start by opening the > file as a binary file and reading a specific amount of data (a > reasonable length, like a few kilobytes or megabytes). Write > that to a new file and examine it, either with a text editor or > hex editor (or what ever application of your choosing). Once you > know the line/record separator character(s) you should be able to > easily process the file line by line or record by record. > > > -- > Brandon McCaig <http://www.bamccaig.com/> <bamcc...@gmail.com> > V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. Vg qbrfa'g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl. > Castopulence Software <http://www.castopulence.org/> > <bamcc...@castopulence.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
