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s/I think you may be/You are/ No single file of source code should ever be even close to 200MB, and no data file (CSV, XML, etc) of that size should be manuall
by jackmaney 12y ago
s/I think you may be/You are/
No single file of source code should ever be even close to 200MB, and no data file (CSV, XML, etc) of that size should be manually edited in a text editor.
Wrong tool for the wrong job.
- mholt 12y agoI never said it was a source code file.
- Dewie 12y agoThis sed substitution thing seems to be a cute trend to express "fixed that for you". It goes nicely with programmer's propensity to express themselves in needlessly arcane ways.
- kmort 12y agoVim and Emacs are quite well-suited for textual manipulation of very large data files. Use of a macro is a very pleasant alternative to piping the file through sed/awk/etc. for a once-off transform.
- netheril96 12y ago"no data file (CSV, XML, etc) of that size should be manually edited in a text editor" A new law of the land! Seriously, tools are meant to solve problems, not to dictate what problems people should solve.
- doodpants 12y agoIndeed, 640 KB ought to be enough for anybody. :/