steph84
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most efficient way to find a string in a file.
What's the most efficient way to find a string in a file?
reading the file line by line and make a match?
while $ligne=<IN>
if $ligne =~ /pattern/
???
reading the file line by line and make a match?
while $ligne=<IN>
if $ligne =~ /pattern/
???
$/="\nbob\n";
if( $ligne=<IN> ){
print "EXACT match for 'bob' found";
}
if( $ligne=<IN> ){
print "EXACT match for 'bob' found";
}
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steph84 said exact match, not word boundary match,
but word boundary match does seem more likely to be what was meant.
but word boundary match does seem more likely to be what was meant.
Oh, come on... at least a warning here....
Although it's definitely faster (well, maybe not definitely--marginally may sometimes be the appropriate word, depends on your buffer size, disk sector size, etc) to read in that entire file, that entire file may be of such a size that you start paging huge quantities everytime you try and move. (I'll grant that I'm only talking about files which are, say, 1/4 the size of your physical memory).
Although it's definitely faster (well, maybe not definitely--marginally may sometimes be the appropriate word, depends on your buffer size, disk sector size, etc) to read in that entire file, that entire file may be of such a size that you start paging huge quantities everytime you try and move. (I'll grant that I'm only talking about files which are, say, 1/4 the size of your physical memory).
that's right. if you even suspect that you may have a file of that size, the algorithm would be different and more complicated. then, it would be necessary to read in blocks of let's say, 4M in memory one by one, do lookup, load in another block, etc. probably, an overkill if one doesn't deal with files > 4M ...
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How to make an exact match??!!
Thanks.