Re: regex on gigabyte string

[Athanasius]

Hello focusonz, and welcome to the Monastery!

Do you need @celltags to be fully populated before proceeding? If not, it might be worth trying:

while (m{(<c.*?/c>)}g)
{
    # Process $1...
}

Just a thought (untested). Hope it helps,

[focusonz]

Tried that but took interminably long execution time even on the 1GB string.

The my @celltags = ($bigstring =~ /(<c.*?\/c>)/g); executed quickly on 1GB strings.