You'd need to open the file using NSStream, NSFileHandle or regular c stdio, then read chunks out of it and break them into lines.

--Jens          // via iPhone

On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:04 PM, "Abel J. Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

I need help parsing a large text file.
I need to examine the file one line at a time.
It's a 128MB text file.

I used the stringWithContentsOfFile method from the NSString class, but the file is too large and it doesn't seem very optimized to me, because what I need is parse one line at a time not the entire text file._______________________________________________

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