En op 18 september 2002 sprak `/anick: > /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/\.(?:gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|css|CSS) HTTP/ or print > > is still a wee bit faster.
You can save a stroke by replacing: 9|18|29 with: 2?9|18 but it seems a flea's proboscis slower in my primitive speed test. BTW, on my (perhaps unrepresentative) 17 MB test file on Windows, `/anick's program took 4.75 secs versus 140 seconds for the original 15-line Perl program. /-\