Hmmm ... that should do it, thanks. But how would one use this on a file without reading it into memory completely?
Joh On Wednesday 28 October 2009 16:29:00 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Do you mean like regexpr() (on the same help page)? > > Depending on your locale, you might actually prefer the character > offset: if you want to match in a MBCS and have byte offsets you will > need to work a bit harder if useBytes=TRUE is not sufficient for you. > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way of doing 'grep' ore something like it on the content of > > a text file and extract the byte positioning of the match in the file? > > I'm facing the need to access rather largish (>600MB) XML files and would > > like to be able to index them ... > > > > Thanks for any help or flogging, > > > > Joh > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
