OpenEuphoria

Re: FILEMAN.E

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <bwryan at PCOM.NET> Feb 22, 1999
• 457 views

Suggestion

When you delete a record just overwrite a ~ (tilde) character

over the first position in the deleted record. To compact the file

all you have to do is find the first record in file that begins

with ~ (tilde) and over write it with the next record if that record

is deleted skip to the next record and etc. I hope you understand

what I mean. This would be done in a buffer in memory and

would be fairly fast. You could also use a filter that reads

in a file and outputs a file while skiping the ~ (tilde) records.

The advantage is speed, easy way to delete, and it doesn't cost a byte.

Hope you feel better soon

Bernie


a good record until all deleted records are removed. By the way

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