OpenEuphoria

Re: Nexus Radio Final Released (should be get.e)

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail?com> Jul 06, 2007
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don cole wrote:
> 
>     What I want to achieve is to read the whole file in one fell swoop.
> 
> If I use gets() all the way through it works but takes longer.

gets() is probably the fasted way to read it.  get() is wholly inappropriate.
As the docs state, it's for reading euphoria objects that have been 
printed using print (though is also handles things like double and single
quotes).  You don't say how you plan to store the data, but I'll assume you
just want the lines concatenated:

object in
sequence s
s = {}
in = gets(fin)
while( sequence( in ) ) do
    s &= in
    in = gets( fin )
end while

I use this basic pattern all the time for reading files (though I usually
keep each line in it's own sequence), and I've never had a problem with the 
speed.  I recall one point in the past when people tried using things like
get_bytes to speed up file IO, but didn't.  It seems that the actual
hardware IO is the bottleneck.

Matt