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Subject: [REBOL] Reading a file line by line Re:(2)
I have been reading really large files using this setup;
file: read/lines %filename
foreach line file [do stuff]
This seems to work well, however what is the limitation. What are the
limitations on such a read, doe
Just read/lines %filename will cause REBOL to crash and burn on large files,
as I found out the hard way (the way I usually do find out stuff). I
wrote some beautiful scripts to monitor various logs on my server using
read/lines on files. Was very proud of meself, as they worked very slickly.
Then
I have been reading really large files using this setup;
file: read/lines %filename
foreach line file [do stuff]
This seems to work well, however what is the limitation. What are the
limitations on such a read, does the entire file get read into memory
when issuing the read/lines comma
> 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
Peter wrote:
> I need to read a BIG text file line by line but I don't know exactly how
to do.
Use a port, Peter. Look in "Ports Access to Files", from the REBOL manual,
here:
users-guide\users\filports.html
Of course, your directories may vary, but there's a copy at the REBOL site.
And
