From: Panu Kinnari <panu.kinnari@...>
Date: 2008-10-03T01:07:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing non-delimited text file


> I'm not sure how big the actual data is, but if it's very large you
> may want to consider not using readlines(). 

It is large, example I provided is excerpt from 450 page, 2 mb text 
file.

 You "slurp" all of this
> data into memory, but then walk through it one line at a time.
> Instead, you could just read it a line at a time, using foreach()
> instead of readlines().

I will look into this.

> To check if a String begins with a number you can use:
> 
>    if str =~ /\A\d/
>      # handle string that starts with a number here
>    end
> 

Thanks, I'll try this

> Hope that helps.

It sure does.

I was wondering, would it be feasible to construct regexp for each line 
type? They do follow certain convention to certain extent after all. 
Atleast lines that matter.

Thanks again.


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