Re: Genbank file parsing

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You might find it easier if your consider the file as a long string, one that happens to contain embedded newline characters.

my $data = do {local $/; <DATA>};
my @items = map { { 'name' => $1, 'niceinfo' => $2 } } 
            ($data =~ /^FEATURES(.+?)^ORIGIN(.+?)^\/\//msg);
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Re^2: Genbank file parsing by blazar (Canon) on Jan 11, 2005 at 14:03 UTC
You might find it easier if your consider the file as a long string, one that happens to contain embedded newline characters. IMHO this qualifies as a particularly bad answer since he specifically pointed out that his file is large and it is always recommended not to slurp large files all at once if possible. Now I don't see anything here that suggests this to be necessary...	[reply]
Re^3: Genbank file parsing by EdwardG (Vicar) on Jan 11, 2005 at 14:41 UTC
It depends just how large the file is, how much memory is available, and other various trade-offs. But you are probably right in general, although I would quibble about "particularly bad" :-/	[reply]

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