Re: Genbank file parsing

[EdwardG]

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);

[blazar]

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...

[EdwardG]

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" :-/