Re: Record Separator affecting Regex

[jdporter]

in reply to Record Separator affecting Regex

The problem is that comments and statements are terminated by two different things, and you can expect to see the two types of elements intermingled.

What I would do, if the file isn't grotesquely huge, is read it all into $_, remove the comments, and then split.

    $_ = <DATA>;
    s/^#.*//gm;           # <b>updated</b>
    my @lines = split /;\n+/;

[Kozz]

Yes, this would have been much easier, but unfortunately, the file is 23MB uncompressed. :(

But thanks for the info - that's another way I might have tried had the file been smaller.