On Mon, November 1, 2010 19:42, Marcos Douglas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: >> On Mon, November 1, 2010 19:20, Marcos Douglas wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> >>> 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. >>> >>> Ok, but I need to work with pure text. The PDF files are "compiled". >> >> Sorry, I'm confused now. Do you want to search for text strings within >> PDF >> files or within regular text files? > > I need to search for text strings in PDF files... but I don´t know do > that, so I use the pdf2txt[1] to convert in pure text. > If there is a unit that can search for text within a PDF file, would > be the best solution for me.
I see, but that means that Marco's comment applies - conversion of PDF files to pure text will probably require more time than finding your string within the (converted) text file. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
