On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: > On Mon, November 1, 2010 19:10, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: >>> <albertonardu...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >> Somebody can help me please? >>> >> I need to search strings in Text files using just FPC. >>> > >>> > how about reading every line and then using Pos() to see if some >>> string is >>> > there? >>> > >>> >>> I don't think this way is the fast way :( >>> I have many PDF files with several pages each. >> >> You'll be surprised. I've done multi million line logfiles that way. A >> pdf2txt is infinitely slow compared with such processing. > > Well, there at least two gotchas there. First, it's better to use a > reasonable (= large enough) buffer size. Second, the simplest approach > implying reading line by line and searching using Pos() obviously isn't > sufficient for searching across line breaks, i.e. you either need to > handle that yourself, or use some unit providing such functionality.
Which unit do you recommends? Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
