From: Marc Hoeppner Date: 2007-07-12T18:48:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Stripping columns / puts'ing columns Robert Klemme wrote: > 2007/7/12, Marc Hoeppner : >> >> other day only to find out that it can be done with grep...yuck). > I'm missing one crucial bit of information: can your files grow so > large that they do not fit into memory? If that's the case you need a > two or more phased approach. > > Kind regards > > robert I am using single protein alignments, so that any single row should never exceed ~ 2000 characters (or in other word my sequences are rarely longer than a couple hundred characters), with 20 rows tops. So that should not be an issue, I guess. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.