Reading variable length records...

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Bjorn Pettersen <BPettersen at NAREX.com> schrub:

> I'm trying to read records from a 2 GB datafile, but my brain has
> stopped working, so I was wondering if someone has allready solved
> this problem. The records are variable length and are separated by a
> five character delimiter. I was trying to use file.read(n) with a
> blocksize of ~1Mb, but got a serious brainfart when trying to think of
> how to handle the case where only part of the delimiter was read in
> the current block.

Hmm - maybe a rewind of the file could help you.

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