Bjorn Pettersen bjorn at roguewave.com
Tue Jul 25 11:52:38 EDT 2000

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luthi at vaw.baug.ethz.NOSPAM.ch wrote:
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> Thank you for your reply. This is obvious, but it won't work on large files
> (exceeding memory). This is why I read the file in chunks and searched these
> chunks. How should I choose the size of these chunks?

Well, that depends on your memory <wink>. I've got 256Mb on my desktop,
so I tend not to worry about it ;-)

> Is there a speed issue using string.find() or the regular expression search()?

string.find() is faster (sometimes much faster).

-- bjorn

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