>Greetings,
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>I have an app which needs to read several *.txt files. I open each of the files using fopen() and read what I need. Everything works great and quick except for 1 file. This is a very large file (4 MB) and each line is also longer than 255. What I did was create a table with a memo field, append the text field into the memo field then read the memo field line by line using mline(). This however takes a very long time to read. Short of creating a table with all the fields for the text file, is there a way I can open this file and read it much quicker.
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Scott
There's a neat trick about using mline() - check the third parameter and the _mline memory variable in Help. In brief,
for i=1 to memlines(theMemo)
=mline(theMemo,i)
endfor
is several times slower for large memos and/or strings than
_mline=0
do while _mline
=mline(theMemo, 1, _mline)
endd
I remember I found it in Help, back then in 2.0 or earlier.
