> I need to read a BIG text file line by line but I
> don't know exactly how to do.
>
> As I understand the following will read the entire
> file to a list of lines and that is not what I want.
>
> lines: read/lines %textfile
>
> I want to read one line, process it before reading
> the next line and so on.
>
Hi Peter:
It's relatively easy to act on files larger than memory, one line at a time.
I believe BO at REBOL came up with the technique originally. I've adapted it
and use it for manipulating large log files on my internet servers.
Here it is, enjoy:
hugefile: open/direct/read/lines %huge_file
while [ ( line: pick hugefile 1 ) <> none ] [
;;do stuff to each line;; ]
close hugefile
--Ralph Roberts
