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Re: the last line of a large file [message #55335 is a reply to message #55237]

Fri, 10 August 2007 07:37

Paul Van Delst[1]
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queiny wrote:
> I think the file_lines works!
>
> Since the file is very large, I can't have one array to read them all
> in once. IDL complained and said there are too many elements in the
> array, so it didn't even let me declare it.

Weird. Exactly how many elements are there? Or, how large is the file?

> The data files are compiled from multiple sources so they only know
> how many records they have in the end.

Well, that's really not an excuse for poorly designed code, but I guess it's
understandable. As a bloke said recently on another newsgroup:

"I always prefer practical, then elegant, then subtle, or I'd never get anything done at all."

cheers,

paulv

>> lol! Really! What in the world is the point of putting the number of
>> lines at the end of the file? That's got to be about the silliest
>> thing I've ever heard of. By the time you've actually read to the end
>> of the file, you already know how many lines there are!
>
>

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		Re: the last line of a large file By: queiny on Fri, 10 August 2007 07:00
		Re: the last line of a large file By: Conor on Fri, 10 August 2007 05:34
		Re: the last line of a large file By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 09 August 2007 14:22
		Re: the last line of a large file By: Jean H. on Thu, 09 August 2007 13:07
		Re: the last line of a large file By: Carsten Lechte on Fri, 10 August 2007 08:00
		Re: the last line of a large file By: David Fanning on Fri, 10 August 2007 07:10
		Re: the last line of a large file By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 10 August 2007 07:37

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