Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Regular Expression Problem

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Richard Gordon wrote:

> Finally, I did try to get the script to run on my Mac by using a line 
> by line read instead of slurping in the whole file and this also 
> crapped out tho I gave MacPerl 50 megs of memory. It's not the first 
> time I've come across memory related problems trying to do Perl 
> things on a Mac that disappear entirely once I migrate them to 
> Solaris, especially cgi. At the moment, I don't consider that so much 
> an indictment of MacOS as a tribute to Solaris, but I am hoping that 
> OS X will provide some degree of equality that just isn't there right 
> now.
> 
I thought I'd add that *my* use of slurping in the whole file is not
prescriptive. There are situations where I'll use it, and situations where
I won't. Admittedly I'm partial to the technique. :-)

I try to go with the _logic_ of the problem. Certain file-processing
problems beg for a line-by-line filter, and I'm not going to obscure the
logic by file-slurping in such a case.

But, then again, the ugly practical issues sometimes intrude also. :-)

Arved



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