On 10/3/07, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Chas shows one possibility. However, that approach generally involves > slurping the entire file into the perl script, applying the regex to > the whole thing, and then spitting the result out again. From what I > understand, this generally isn't very good form. snip
The reason slurping files is frowned upon is that you do not know how large the file may be. You may be testing with small files, but production may be using multi-gig files. Source files are almost always less than a few megabytes (and if they aren't you have a bigger problem than a slurp). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
