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Re: byte offset in POINT_LUN [message #55267 is a reply to message #55266]

Wed, 08 August 2007 14:30

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Josh wrote:
> as i'm cruising through, reading a large ascii file, I'd like to keep
> track of the beginning of certain "blocks" of code. in the event that
> i find what i'm looking for within the block, I'd like to PRINTF the
> entire block (the beginning of which is now above my file position).
> I've used POINT_LUN to return to the start of a file before, by
> setting position=0, but is there a way I can use POINT_LUN to go to a
> specific line within the file (since I'm not sure how that would
> correspond to a byte offset) ?

Sure. Just keep track of the byte offsets corresponding to the start
of the lines you're interested in.

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		Re: byte offset in POINT_LUN By: badjelly.witch on Thu, 09 August 2007 15:44
		Re: byte offset in POINT_LUN By: Josh on Wed, 08 August 2007 15:15
		Re: byte offset in POINT_LUN By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 August 2007 14:36
		Re: byte offset in POINT_LUN By: James Kuyper on Wed, 08 August 2007 14:30
		Re: byte offset in POINT_LUN By: Josh on Wed, 08 August 2007 13:05

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