Regexp optimization question

[William Park]

Magnus Lie Hetland <mlh at furu.idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
> In article <c6brgc$a70l0$1 at ID-99293.news.uni-berlin.de>, William Park wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Since you want both the matched strings and their locations in file, you
> >pretty much have to this manually, one by one.
> 
> Well -- that's more or less what I'm doing. (Or -- I can get the match
> objects all at once, of course, using finditer.)
> 
> I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for performance improvements. Hm.

You can write up something in C, as standalone or as patch to Bash
shell.  Essentially, 
    - locate start of string match
    - print location (and the string)
    - move pointer past the end of string.
    - repeat.

Closest you can do using standary tools is strings and byte-offset of
the lines the strings occurs.

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