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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Are we hoping that we can mmap() most scripts, so read isn't hugely a > problem? And sluuuurp the rest in one? [doesn't feel good] > Are we going to have "lazy scalars" which collude with the regexp engine > so that if the regexp engine hits the current end more is read from > the file handle? > Something else? Perhaps we could add a mode to the regex engine like: $filehandle =~ /.../; Where the engine itself would do the reading and buffering. Ok, that might not be such a good idea... This probably never returns, eh: $filehandle =~ /(.*)/; However we solve the problem I hope we can allow Perl programmers access to the solution. This is a very common problem with regex parsers. -samThread Previous