On Tue, 15-Sep-2009 at 02:44PM -0700, William Dunlap wrote:
|> perl can do more complicated processing and filtering than grep. I once used perl to filter the useful 4 or 5 Mb out of a file that was over 250Mb. It took about 3 lines of perl code and about 40 seconds to run. Perl's not exactly my strong point, but I could look it up next time I'm on that machine if anyone is interested. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.