[julia-users] Parsing large XML files

[Brandon Booth]

I'm trying to cycle through a series of large XML files, pull out selected 
values, and write them to an SQLite database. My code works for smaller 
files, but crashes when I get to anything larger than about 1 GB. 

I put the parsing into the following function:

function iparse(file)  f = open(file)  n = countlines(f)  vals = 
Array(ASCIIString,n,3)  seekstart(f)  c = 1  while !eof(f)    try      st = 
parse_string(readline(f)

      vals[c,1] =       c += 1    catch      next    end  end  return vals  
close(f)end