Hi Everybody, I'm trying to read line-feed (ASCII #10) terminated lines from a file (think UNIX file), not the usual CRLF (ASCII #13 #10) terminated lines.
What I'm doing at the moment is to `Read' 1 char at a time into a var until I hit an LF + then display the string to the user. While this works, it is sloooowwwwwwwwww when seeking to the last line in a large file. I've tried using `Read' with zero based character arrays - + while this is much faster, read fills the array completely (ie: if the array is [0..999], Read will read 1000 chars from the file) instead of stopping at the LF in the file. As each line in the file is variable in length, I am unable to allocate a static array. Dynamic arrays don't work with `Read', but as I don't the length of each string in the file this doesn't really matter. When comparing speed against what I'm currently doing + using ReadLn (ReadLn doesn't read the LF, I was just testing speed), ReadLn is so much quicker it's unbelievable. My question is, does anyone know of a way to read LF terminated lines from a file with speed comparable to ReadLn? Thanks :-)
