I once had to deal with a similar scenario. What I did was, I stored the file content into a string variable with the JCL "FileToString" function, then assign the string to the Text property of a TMemo that I finally read line by line, at the user's choice. It worked for me with no sweat.
Emmanuel --- In [email protected], "darckness000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 :-) >
