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in reply to regex on gigabyte string

You might find it easier to use XML::Twig which is designed to process huge xml files.

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Re^2: regex on gigabyte string
by focusonz (Initiate) on Jan 26, 2013 at 18:58 UTC

    Thanks Maybe I will test it next time around

    I settled on using a substring() algorithm to parse up the $bigstring which is fast and now processing a total of upwards of 30GB in 5GB chunks.

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