From: Cee Joe <cyril_jose@...>
Date: 2011-04-29T03:27:37+09:00
Subject: Re: File position and buffers

7stud -- wrote in post #995581:
> You still have not told us what you are supposed to do with the stuff
> you read in??  You can read a file line by line and print out each line
> as you go and the maximum amount of memory used will be one line's
> worth.   However, if you are supposed to store all the lines in an
> array, then you will read the whole file into memory.
>
>> Thanks guys for your helpful comments. I will be more
>> descriptive. I am an intern and my mentor wants me to
>> use the IO.pos to read the characters of the file
>> until the character reaches the ">" symbol.
>


I am extracting text from each entry I read in, something I have figured 
out already. I want to read the file line by line and just store each 
entry into a buffer when it reaches the ">" symbol. THen extract 
specific info from it later. The entry lengths all vary as there long 
and short lengths. File is in text mode.

> What problems is that giving you?  You can create a loop, read the
> character at pos(i), then increment i, and do what Jesús Gabriel y Galán
> suggested.

Could you show me a simple example or refer me to a link?

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