On 7/9/05, Luke Worth <luke / worth.id.au> wrote:
> I am wanting to parse large files (of source code) by reading byte by
> byte and converting certain patterns into different strings. I can think
> of a couple of ways to do this (starting with the source code in a
> String):
>      1. String#split(//) -> array, then use Array#shift (maybe slow to
>         convert to array?)
>      2. Keep a counter and use String#[] (which seems unrubyish to me)

Regex. You know what these patterns are in advance.

-austin
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