Dan Jablonsky wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I remember reading (probably in the Camel book) that
> the more $1, $2 and so on you have in a regex the
> slower the regex will be executed. It seems any
> backreference is taxing performance considerably.
>
> Is there an alternative? What I am trying to do is
-start-
> Grant Hopwood
>at06/13/2001 01:37 PM
>-start-
PS:
># Concatenation should generally always be faster than substitution which
kind of 'slices, dices, and stretches'
># a string.
That is, faster when replacing almost all of the string.
Grant Hopwood.
Valero Energy Corp.
(210)37
-start-
> Dan Jablonsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>at06/13/2001 12:22 PM
>Is there an alternative? What I am trying to do is
>isolate some patterns with each line of a text file
>and then make small changes to those pieces and/or
>switching the position of some of those pieces. Is it
>possible to
Hi all,
I remember reading (probably in the Camel book) that
the more $1, $2 and so on you have in a regex the
slower the regex will be executed. It seems any
backreference is taxing performance considerably.
Is there an alternative? What I am trying to do is
isolate some patterns with each line
-start-
> Dan Jablonsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>at06/11/2001 10:35 PM
>Hi all,
>I'm trying to come up with a simple perl script that
>would open a directory and would delete all files
>under a certain size. I played a while with ls and
>stat but I'm not going anywhere.
>I can't tell where the
