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Postings from October 1999
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Rob Cunningham wrote: > I'll add a comment before I start a war. For what I need to do, the best thing > about perl is its regexp parser, which is more full-featured than anything > else I can find. It's speed is good too, which is critical. When I needed to > structure my code to simultaneously parse multiple streams, I could have > either (a) rewritten my perl objects in C++ (starting over) or (b) made use of > perl's threading mechanism, and kept most of the code base. I did the latter, > even though threading was listed as experimental. I plan to work to help make > the next version of perl threading work, and we have committed some resources > to help make that happen. Naive question: have you looked at Expect.pm? It's interface is raw as hell, but armed with _Exploring_Expect_ from O'Reilly you should have a "multiple stream" regexer in a day or two. I like perl threads just like the next guy but I don't think that betting the farm on them makes much sense right now. -sam