How about read for x characters, put the last line in a buffer and remove it from the read text, process the read text, read the next block, prepend the buffer line.
Bob S > On Sep 16, 2017, at 17:50 , Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > until today i used always put URL to read a complete file into memory. But > now i have to process really large text files with a size of 900 - 1500 MB. > I know i can read a file until EOF or so. > > But how would i read a file until a line that starts with a certain keyword, > e.g. mstart. I need to read until the line before that line which starts with > mstart. > And then read from that “mstart” line until the next line before “mstart”. > Do i have to read line by line and check if the line starts with that keyword > or is there also an other way? > > Maybe i am thinking to complicated. > > Regards, > Matthias > > > > Matthias Rebbe _______________________________________________ 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
