OpenEuphoria

Re: Speed question

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jan 20, 2004
• 504 views

On 19 Jan 2004, at 20:08, Allen Robnett wrote:

> 
> 
> After opening a Euphoria text file "r", I am reading in one million 
> 8-character words, (the entire file).
> 
> clear_screen() 
> fp=seek(fn,0) -- why do you seek()?
> s = get(fn)

Since the file is not \n delimited, i'd use gets()

> close(fn)
> word_array = s[2] -- what?
> word_array[4][6] is then the 6th letter of the 4th word in the array.

using gets, word_array[wordlen x wordnum][6] is the same.

> It works fine, but it takes fifteen minutes to read in the array. Is 
> there a better way?

There must be, i can get a megabyte off the internet in 15 minutes! Take a 
peek at function getf() in file.e.

Kat



Kat