>Hello All,
>I'm receiving oracle files where I don't know for sure what the carriage return is (whether it's a chr(13) or a chr(13) + chr(10).
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>So, I open the file with an fopen(), I do a fgets() to find the length of a record, an fseek() to return to the top of the file and then an fread() with the length of a record * 2 which should bring down the carriage return for me to examine.
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>The problem I am encountering is that the fgets() statement is only returning 254 bytes. When I examine the file in a file editor I can see that they are 1025 bytes in length!!
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>If this is a DOS limitation, how can I overcome it and if not, what am I doing incorrectly??
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>Thanks
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>Sandy
Sandy,
Continue to use fgets() to return lines. It takes care of CRLF for you. Just add second parameter nLength (ie:65535) to define a larger length than default.
Cetin