Yes you have to open the file before you can do anything with it. Shawn Regan Applications Developer Pacific Technology Solutions
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Giesenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFFILE reads whole file into 1 var? but wouldn't it have to open the whole file up first to find the first character or the 2000th character... Paul Giesenhagen QuillDesign http://www.quilldesign.com SiteDirector v2.0 - Commerce Builder ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:54 AM Subject: Re: CFFILE reads whole file into 1 var? > Streams :-) C (and I assume Java) can read a file one character at a time. > > > > I may not understand how that works, but I can't see anyway around not > > opening the whole file first. > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists