OpenEuphoria

Re: HELP with 'seek'

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 20, 2000
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Jim wrote:

> > Al wrote:
> > if your file is so large its not practical to read through
>  > the whole file at startup,
>
> Yeah, some of the files I'll be processing are pretty large, 17,000 records
> of 100 bytes each (1.7million bytes). Your solution 'D' sounds unique...
> and one of the first I'll implment.
>
A couple of questions come to mind:
Are these files always comma delimited, quoted strings? Do you have a choice?
Secondly, are the files one-time use-and-discard, or are they more of a
cumulative thing, which would make the use of EDS (suggested by ck leaster)
a "good thing"?

Regards,
Irv