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Re: Reading a string from a file [message #13817 is a reply to message #13808]

Wed, 09 December 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Stefano Manzonetto (tesi3@a5.itba.mi.cnr.it) writes:

> I've a problem which should rather easy for you to solve. I need to
> save a string to a file and then read it without knowing before its
> length. Note that the string is just a field of a struct, so I can't get
> its length from the file's one.

If your file is an ASCII file, put the string on a line
by itself and read it like this:

mystring = ''
ReadF, lun, mystring

If your file is a binary file, make sure you are
writing an XDR file. These files will save the
length of a string along with the other "meta" data.

OpenW, lun, 'myfile.dat', /Get_Lun, /XDR

If you want to write a binary file, but for some
reason you can't use XDR format, then the best idea
is to write the length of the sting into the file.
Something like this:

WriteU, lun, StrLen(mystring), mystring

Then, when reading out:

stringLen = 0L
ReadU, lun, stringLen
mystring = String(Replicate(32B, stringLen))
ReadU, lun, mystring

Cheers,

David

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