Regex File contents

[Frank Ashley]

I want to regex a 600Mb file. Instead of reading it all into a string and
passing that into an expression is it possible to point regex to a file for
proccesing?
Thanks
Frank

[MasterGaurav]

Nopes I think.

IMHO, the Regex will need full string. Otherwise, it'd be impossible to
manage back-references or otherwise...
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[Frank Ashley]

True. But I was hoping there was some kind file/memory trickery that regex
might use.
regards
Frank


"MasterGaurav" <ga**********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Nopes I think.

IMHO, the Regex will need full string. Otherwise, it'd be impossible to
manage back-references or otherwise...
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Cheers,
Gaurav Vaish
http://mastergaurav.org
http://mastergaurav.blogspot.com
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[Jon Shemitz]

Frank Ashley wrote:

I want to regex a 600Mb file. Instead of reading it all into a string and
passing that into an expression is it possible to point regex to a file for
proccesing?

Not directly. But - assuming that the file contains multiple matches -
you can read it in a chunk at a time until you have a match; process
all matches in the read buffer; then read again until the next match.
Not the most trivial code, but nothing that will cause hair loss.

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