From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T20:58:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet Another "Thickie" question from Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support"
<mark.firestone@gossgraphic.co.uk>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:39 AM
Subject: Yet Another "Thickie" question from Mark


> I'm now working on porting a game called "Global Destruction" to my BBS
> software.  The way this game is written (in C++) it has a datafile full of
> text (it's about 107k worth of text..)
>
> In my old language of Pascal, I would make this into a File of Records and
> read it from the disk as I needed it.
>
> Should i just marshall this, or what?  My instincts are to read it as I
need
> it... but my instincts don't work right in this language...

I'd think it would be acceptable to put the
data after __END__ and use DATA to read it.

As for reading it "as needed": That made
sense 20 years ago. But it's only 107K.
That's what, 1/5000th of your PC's RAM?
I'd say: Put it in an array and forget it.

Hal