I just finished my first version of a script that converts rtf to
xml and was wondering if I went about writing it the wrong way.
My method was to read in one line at a time and split the lines
into tokens, and then to read one token at a time. I used this
line to split up the text:
@tokens =
t;
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: script too slow?
> I just finished my first version of a script that converts rtf to
> xml and was wondering if I went about writing it the wrong way.
>
> My method was to read in one line at a time and split the lines
> into token
maybe you should check this out:
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=RTF-Tokenizer
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=RTF-Parser
On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 19:35, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> I just finished my first version of a script that converts rtf to
> xml and was wondering if I went about writing it
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 08:08:50PM -0700, Marco Antonio Valenzuela Escárcega wrote:
> Subject: Re: script too slow?
>
>
> maybe you should check this out:
> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=RTF-Tokenizer
> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=RTF-Parser
>
>
These modul
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:57:04PM -0400, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what the problems are; however, here are a couple of
> things to try
> 1.) If you don't need to save the value of each of the subexpressions, then
> tell perl so by using ?: after each opening paren.
Once I
Paul Tremblay wrote:
>
> I just finished my first version of a script that converts rtf to
> xml and was wondering if I went about writing it the wrong way.
>
> My method was to read in one line at a time and split the lines
> into tokens, and then to read one token at a time. I used this
> line
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:45:19AM -0700, John W. Krahn wrote:
So your split could be simplified to:
>
> my @tokens = split /({\\[^\s}{]+|\\[^\s\\}]+|\\[\\}]|})/, $line;
>
>
Ah, that cuts the tokenize process in half. My entire script now
takes 40 seconds to run instead of 50.
Thanks!
Paul
I expect you've seen it, but Microsoft have the RTF spec on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/RTFSpec_2.asp
They've got a fairly detailed description of a "Sample RTF Reader
Application" in there, which might be useful in determining the bes
John W. Krahn wrote at Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:45:19 +0200:
> my @tokens = split /({\\[^\s}{]+|\\[^\s\\}]+|\\[\\}]|})/, $line;
> ^^ ^^ ^^
Perhaps we can simplify even this regex:
my @tokens = split / ( \\ (?: [^\s{}]+ |
[^\s\
Janek Schleicher wrote:
>
> John W. Krahn wrote at Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:45:19 +0200:
> >
> > my @tokens = split /({\\[^\s}{]+|\\[^\s\\}]+|\\[\\}]|})/, $line;
> > ^^ ^^ ^^
>
> Perhaps we can simplify even this regex:
>
> my @tokens = split / ( \\ (?: [^\s{}]
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Janek Schleicher wrote:
>
> To increase speed, we can make also a lookahead statement:
>
> my @tokens = split / ( \\ (?=\S)# there's never a whitespace
> (?: [^\s{}]+ |
> [^\s\\}]+ |
>
John W. Krahn wrote at Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:16:38 +0200:
> Janek Schleicher wrote:
>>
>> John W. Krahn wrote at Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:45:19 +0200:
>> >
>> > my @tokens = split /({\\[^\s}{]+|\\[^\s\\}]+|\\[\\}]|})/, $line;
>> > ^^ ^^ ^^
>>
>> Perhaps we can si
Paul Tremblay wrote at Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:45:21 +0200:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Janek Schleicher wrote:
>
>
>> To increase speed, we can make also a lookahead statement:
>>
>> my @tokens = split / ( \\ (?=\S)# there's never a whitespace
>>
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