Re: regex on gigabyte string

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...
}
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Just a thought (untested). Hope it helps,

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Re^2: regex on gigabyte string by focusonz (Initiate) on Jan 26, 2013 at 18:52 UTC
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.	[reply]