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in reply to Re: RegEx - Positive Look-ahead
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Can you briefly describe why?

I am parsing Wikipedia dumps, one such file is ( WARNING: 41MB file ) this. I rewrote my entire parser to sift through the file one line at a time - which turns out is much faster than loading up chunks and using RegEx on it.