I can't tell exactly what it is you're doing, but it sounds like it's little more than calling some 3rd party API once you've done a regex match,
You're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Choose a better tool, text processing it not fast (or easy) with C#, it was never designed to be. A craftsman solves jobs better and more efficiently with the correct choice of tool. 2008/12/22 AstroDrabb <[email protected]>: > > Or tr, perl, dos2unix, etc. Yeah, thanks for the tip captain obvious. > > The C# app isn't just doing that. It is processing a 700+ MB file, > and you know, actually > doing stuff. As I am writing the output it would be smartest to make > the EOL's appropiate for the > destination platform. In this case, Unix even though the app is > processed on Win2k3. > > Processing a 700+MB file and then processing it again just to change > the EOL would > be stupid. Hence me wanted to do it as I am processing the file. > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Jack Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Or you could use a more appropriate tool like sed. >> >> Why would you ever write a C# application to do something so trivial ? >
