From: Tristin Davis <tristin.colby@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T07:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#Foreach -- Max line length

Gotcha,   I'll post the code once i revamp ;)

7stud -- wrote:
> 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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