<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have a script that works on xml content. A thousand time simplified version is:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> xml_output | perl -n000e </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">'s,(?<=">)(.*?)(?=</</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">HttpBody>),</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">`echo $1 | wc -c`,eg; print'</font><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I.e., I need to pipe the matching string ($1, content between tag </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">HttpBody) to an external program via shell. As you can tell, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">if the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">matching </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">content</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> is too big for shell parameter length, my script will fail.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I *have to* process the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">matching string via the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">external program. Is there any way I can get around this? </span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks</span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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