[Tutor] Suggestions as to how to read a file in paragraphs

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> What is a more efficient way to read a file and split it into
>paragraphs
>> and just print those paragraphs which match a particular condition?
>
>First, do you need the efficiency? Is it actually causing a problem
>just now?

This sounds like somebody who is accustomed to perl's ability to tweak a
variable causing the read operation to suck in paragraph at a time.  Every
time I've wanted to use this in perl, I've had to either go back to the
perlvars documentation or find an existing program that used it to figure
out what the variable name is.

Bill
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