From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T06:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#Foreach -- Max line length

Tristin Davis wrote:
> That's what the 2nd if statement is; for catching the delimiter if the 
> buffer isn't too large.  I can't use gets b/c I may expend all the 
> memory before the actual line is read.  
>

Look.   A string and a file are really no different--except reading from 
a file is slow.  Therefore, to speed things up read in the maximum every 
time you read from the file, and store it in a string.  Process the 
string just like you would the file.  Then read from the file again.

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