Terry, Thanks. I'll try that method. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Terry Judd <terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
