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From: PerlFAQ Server on 6 Jun 2010 18:00
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6.5: I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?

$/ has to be a string. You can use these examples if you really need to
do this.

If you have File::Stream, this is easy.

use File::Stream;

my $stream = File::Stream->new(
$filehandle,
separator => qr/\s*,\s*/,
);

print "$_\n" while <$stream>;

If you don't have File::Stream, you have to do a little more work.

You can use the four-argument form of sysread to continually add to a
buffer. After you add to the buffer, you check if you have a complete
line (using your regular expression).

local $_ = "";
while( sysread FH, $_, 8192, length ) {
while( s/^((?s).*?)your_pattern// ) {
my $record = $1;
# do stuff here.
}
}

You can do the same thing with foreach and a match using the c flag and
the \G anchor, if you do not mind your entire file being in memory at
the end.

local $_ = "";
while( sysread FH, $_, 8192, length ) {
foreach my $record ( m/\G((?s).*?)your_pattern/gc ) {
# do stuff here.
}
substr( $_, 0, pos ) = "" if pos;
}



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