>>>I am parsing Medical HL7 format records. I'm using fgets() to read them as a flat file. Some of the record formats have interpretations of the data that exceeds the 8192 maximum length of the fgets. When I get the data if the length is less than 8192 then it is obvious the length is what it is. If the length of the data is 8192 how can I tell if the fgets completed because of a CR or there is more data for that record?
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>>lcString = FGETS(lnHandle, 8192)
>>IF RIGHT(lcString, 1) == CHR(13)
>>   *** Ends with CR
>>ENDIF
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>>BTW why not use FILETOSTR() and then ALINES()?
>>Of course if the file is relatively small.
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>Not gonna work. FGETS() does not return EOL characters

Didn't know this.
Thnaks