On Friday 20 February 2004, john.allen at dublinux.net (John Allen) wrote:
>> Two characters less to type, and just a tiny bit less satisfying is:
>>>>>> perl -ne 'if (/1^(2)/) {print} else { exit if $1}' humungous_file
>>>>>>This one does not work though.
That's right - I've no idea where the 1 after the / came from :-)
However, the whole thing is moot as Padraig is in a quest for speed, so
the capture here is a bad idea (because it's relatively slow). Anyway, C
and readline is probably the way he'll go. My Perl solution was written
for conciseness and cuteness, not speed. And unlike a lot of Perl
one-liners, it was understandable by mortals.
Niall
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