[Novalug] question about grep in perl

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Tue Mar 28 18:35:32 EDT 2017


On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, John Holland via Novalug wrote:

> Well, the problem given was to process the whole file. There’s no getting around reading the entire file once. 
>
> I think the questions to be asked are, 
> how many comparisons are being done?
> How much memory is used?
> how concise is the code?
> Can it be plugged into something as it is? (does it fit Bonnie’s codebase, or is it generic enough to fit just about any codebase?)
> Does it use grep? This was the original question, whether grep would be useful.

yes that "does it use grep?" was the original question and i appreciate 
your answer since it shows me how grep can be used - which i was not able 
to figure out from online docs

please - no flame wars

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