Hi William - you should be able to read a text file of that size into LC no worries. Have you tried the 'put url (³file:²&tPath) into tVar¹ method rather than using the Œread file¹ approach. I only ever use the latter if I have to deal with really big files (10s to 100s of MB or more).
Terry... On 19/03/2015 4:17 pm, "William Prothero" <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: >Folks: >Just wondering. I am reading in a very long text file (2.6Mb and 2.6 >million chars) and it has no carriage returns. The ³read file until end² >statement hangs and goes into the spinning pizza of death on Mac OS >Yosemite and LC 7,0,4 and 7.0.3. I used textWrangler to insert hard line >breaks, which seemed to work fine, but when I then added a ³replace cr >with empty in theData², it hung the system. > >I suspect the long text file overwrote something and then the replace >function hung it up. > >So, am I trying to do something out of the range of what Livecode can do? >I¹m wondering whether I should start editing the file into smaller files. > >My overall goal is to convert the KML (a specific xml format) to an >array, using Trevor Devore¹s convertXMLToArray, for processing, then save >it back to a friendlier format for normal use. > >So, do I just start editing the file into smaller files, or is there >another strategy that would be more efficient. I¹ll have to recreate >headers, etc, for each file, but it can¹t be too bad. > >Best, >Bill > >William A. Prothero >http://es.earthednet.org/ > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
