Re: [MacPerl] Memory leak?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.41 12/9/97, Strider wrote:
>Well, I'm trying to take records which are exactly the same as one another
>and delete, say, the 'second' record that it finds. Again, I suppose I
>could do this simply with s//, but I thought that would probably be slower-
>actually processing the data instead of just moving it around. Am I right?

Actually, search-and-replace is pretty darn fast.  But it would only be
really efficient if duplicate entries came consecutively in the file.

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