Subj : Re: long lines in a file
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Michael Preslar
Date : Fri Dec 16 2005 04:46 pm

 Re: Re: long lines in a file
 By: Sean Dennis to Michael Preslar on Fri Dec 16 2005 03:44 pm

> MP> What would you guys suggest as the best way to handle such
> MP> situations? blockread() then parse 255 characters at a time?
>
> ...or maybe you could write a procedure to parse the ANSI codes "on the fly"
> that way you can just read everything in one character at a time, but parse
> ANSI as it comes in.
>
> I don't know much about blockread, but hope this might help somehow.

Character by character would be waaaay to slow.

Im thinking that I'll have to:

repeat
 blockread(f,buf,2048);
 s = copy(buf,1,255);
 ansi_write_line(s);
until eof(f);

or something.
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