[OSM-dev] Split osm line with perl

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> The real trick of course is to use an XML parser which handles all of
> this for you.

And decodes UTF8 along the way, and all this in just a few hours if 
you're lucky (if you happen to use the native Perl XML parsing which is 
used by default and without warning unless you have proper modules 
installed, then parsing a planet may also take the better part of a day).

It all depends on what you want to do. If you have a planet file and 
quickly want to count how many different values of a certain key are 
used therein, nothing beats a quick curse on the shell command line, or 
a mini Perl script.

Bye
Frederik

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