Re: substr() - copying or not copying, that is here the question.

In article <101fv4s$1g5c8$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

Okay, maybe I could write an extension to work on memory
mapped files - the data originally stems from a file -
and seek/read through "C" mechanisms. (But that's huge
effort compared to some natively available function. And
then I'd probably better implement that straightly in "C"
instead of using Awk, in the first place, since I'd have
to implement the GNU Awk Extension anyway in "C".)
>
Janis

You could check w/Arnold about his consulting rates. Perhaps
he would do a patch for you, or write an extension function
for you.