Hi Bob, I wanted to chime in to agree with the general consensus that <cffile> is not really suited for parsing large data files.
However, you can use the Windows Scripting FileSystem object (COM) or a native Java filesystem class to do this.. While it's not necessarrily beginner level stuff, learning to access these commonly available and underused resources is something you will use again and again down the line. That said, there is a UDF at cflib.org that does what you are seeking using a native Java class: http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=417 The UDF may not work for you; you may not have Java installed on your server (you should), and you may not have access to do so. If not, consider doing some research on the Windows FileSystem scripting object. This should give you a reasonable performance increase over <cffile>, and allow you to read in a line at a time as well. Regards, Seth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Gillham Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:23 PM To: List@Dfwcfug. Org Subject: Read a file Anyone know an easy way to read a file in one line at a time. And perhaps stop after so many lines. I have a 120 meg file that I would like to read a little of. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org
