On May 2, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
I think I was told by someone that Perl's input buffer would adjust to this kind of insanely long line. Does it slow the input down much to have to re-allocate the buffer?
I doubt it. This sort of stuff is precisely what Perl was originally made to do. Larry Wall needed to merge and filter log files from several JPL sites, and sed wasn't quite flexible enough for the job. Thus, Perl was born.
(And sometime I'd like to build an error page script that would dump 64K from /random back at the zombie.
I *completely* agree with the sentiment, but beware of collateral damage. A lot of this stuff comes from third-party machines that have been hijacked. The owners are often innocent dupes who aren't even aware their machines are spewing this stuff.
sherm--
