Re: [Boston.pm] transposing rows and columns in a CSV file

2004-11-12 Thread Ben Tilly
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:38:57 -0500, Gyepi SAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:11:37AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: [...] I think mmap would be just as ideal in Perl and a lot less work too. Rather than indexing and parsing a *large* file, you must mmap and parse it. In fact,

Re: [Boston.pm] transposing rows and columns in a CSV file

2004-11-12 Thread Ben Tilly
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:05:27 -0500, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GS == Gyepi SAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] this talk about mmap makes little sense to me. it may save some i/o and even some buffering but you still need the ram and mmap still causes disk accesses. Um, mmap does

[Boston.pm] new edition of book available

2004-11-12 Thread Greg London
Hey all. For those of you who were at the monger meeting, I plugged my sci-fi book Hunger Pangs and said a new edition was coming out this week. Well, it's out as of last night. Check out the preview (part of which is licensed CreativeCommons-NonCommercial) and buy the book if you like hard sf or

Re: [Boston.pm] transposing rows and columns in a CSV file

2004-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:22 -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:05:27 -0500, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GS == Gyepi SAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] this talk about mmap makes little sense to me. it may save some i/o and even some buffering but you still need the

Re: [Boston.pm] emergency social meeting

2004-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:26 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: bdf == brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bdf I'm in Boston from Nov 15-18. for those of you who don't know, bdf teaches for stonehenge (randal's biz) and is the founder of perl mongers (which you are a member of!) so let's give