MetaGurus,
I want to read a certain specified range of line numbers from a huge text
file. What's the best way to do this? What I'd like is something like:
open file thisFile
read from file thisFile from line 189 to line 300
put it into myVar
close file thisFile
...except that this obviously won't work. You can't specify a beginning
line and an ending line to read from a file, can you?
Normally you'd think to just load the whole file into a variable and then
work with it, but this file is huge and needs to be accessed numerous times,
and different lines will be read each time. I know I can use character
numbers but would prefer not to. Can anyone help?
Richard MacLemale
www.coolclassroom.com
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