OpenEuphoria

Re: The Mother of All Euphoria Questions (Apologies in Advance)

• Posted by Stuart Brady <stu.doofer at CARE4FREE.NET> Jan 24, 2000
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> > I simply want to display a large text file on the screen. I read in the
> text
> > file line by line as in the library gets example.  I am unable to simply
> > puts, printf etc the large sequence onto the display.

> Try this:
>
> sequence s
> object line
> integer fn
> fn = open("text.txt","r")
> s = {}
>
> while 1 do
>   line = gets(fn)
>    if atom(line) then exit
>    else s &= line
>    end if
>   end while
> close(fn)
>
> puts(1,s)

Yes I see what my problem was.  I was using append and believed the library
descriptions of puts and
printf actually printing sequences. :-p

The sequences have to be  'simple'. i.e. not contain 'other sequences'.

{1,2,3,4,5}        O.K.
{1,2,3{4,5}}      *error*

The use of concatenation is a bit understated in the documentation.

Stuart