Thanks to all for your suggestions. I will try to decide which is the best option for our shop.
Billy Cravens wrote: > I'll agree that CF isn't really the best tool to do this (due to the size of > the file), but you can probably split the entire file into a list (try > #chr(10)# as your delimiter), then to an array. Perl seems like the best > choice (this is Perl's forte), though an alternative would be to build a COM > object that does this (or use the CFX mentioned) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Gillham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "List@Dfwcfug. Org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:22 PM > Subject: Read a file > > > Anyone know an easy way to read a file in one line at a time. And > > perhaps stop after so many lines. I have a 120 meg file that I would > > like to read a little of. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- > > spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any > > questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- > spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any > questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com > > ----------------------------------------------- > To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org
