Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

David Christensen wrote:

> Yes -- I'm such an insensitive ass.  ;-)
> 

nice to meet you :)

> 
> I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember.  Lexing, parsing,
> and EBFN are the standard computer science tools for tasks such as this. 
> (Perl s/// is the road to madness for anything but the most trivial
> cases.)  I wanted to give the OP an idea of what needs to be done and the
> level of effort involved.
> 
> 

Selfcontradiction IMO - but you are right - for sure one has to try first,
just to find out that regex is not enough.

Sometimes I am wondering where people get the time to spent on such things.

>> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:40 PM, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> David Christensen wrote:
>> 
>>> 2.  Get a tool that understands the dump file (such as the original
>>> database engine), import the dumps, and then generate queries/ reports/
>>> etc. as desired to meet your needs.
>> 
>> This is probably the best solution to the problem - import the dump and
>> export in a friendly way
> 
> Laziness is the first chief virtue of (Perl) programmers [1].  Hopefully,
> the OP has this option.
> 

regards