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Re: Determining length of a text file? [message #40961 is a reply to message #40889]

Tue, 21 September 2004 01:58

lloyd
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Registered: February 2003

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> It is usually more time efficient to allocate a big text array, read,
> ignore the error, and truncate the empty text strings thus avoiding a
> FOR loop. Since all null strings point to the same (null) memory (I
> think) you only use a small temporary memory. For large table this can
> improve speed a lot.

I have a file of a few million lines to read in. Obviously it takes
awhile to read in (using while EOF), and would like to speed it up.

How do I get the code to ignore the error generated?

Thanks

Lloyd

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		Determining length of a text file? By: Jonathan Greenberg on Sat, 11 September 2004 16:04
		Re: Determining length of a text file? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 21 September 2004 08:18
		Re: Determining length of a text file? By: lloyd on Tue, 21 September 2004 01:58
		Re: Determining length of a text file? By: kklare on Mon, 20 September 2004 15:14

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