Thanks Mark, I will give that a try!
m
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> Metro,
>
> function readFile theFile
> open file theFile for binary read
> read from file theFile until EOF
> close file theFile
> return it
> end readFile
>
> function readFile2 theFile
> return url ("binfile:" & theFile)
> end readFile2
>
> Mind the parentheses in the second example.
>
> --
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>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> On 23 mrt 2011, at 19:58, Metro wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> What is the recommended way of importing text files in which CRs are
>> used as record delimiters and LFs are used as cell delimiters within
>> each paragraph? I'm using Mac 10.5 and LiveCode 4.5 (upgrading to 4.6
>> later today)? Both of these, CR and LF, are getting turned into LFs
>> when I bring them in.
>>
>> I want to bring this type of file into LiveCode, process it using the
>> chunk functions, and then write it back out to file.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> m
>>
>
>
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