Cindy,
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Something come to my mind. If my ascii file is big, having thousands
> of features on it, is it safe to read in all the lines and
> processing? Is there a way to read in one feature and processing?
No, FME will read the entire file into memory and then does the
processing. However, FME does attempt to grab as much memory and swap
space as possible.
For *very* large files (and we're talking many millions of features-
here), it may become wise to cut it up into smaller chunks and process
those separately. When exactly this becomes the smart thing to do
depends on your hardware and the specific processes you use in FME. You
may want to do the development and testing of your workbench on a
smaller subset of the data.
Hope this helps.
--
Hans van der Maarel
Red Geographics
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