>>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
Too early pressed on send.
FPDOS fgets() defaults to 254 bytes.

handle=fopen("myfile.txt")
do while !feof(handle)
  cLine = fgets(handle,65535)
enddo

65535 is not wrong there. fgets() stops before if encounters CRLF.
Cetin