On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:17:39PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > So basically, why not mmap() the file, go through the map counting \n
> > while replacing them by \0 until you reach end of map. allocate an
> > array the size of the counter and have each array entry point to where
> > it should in the memory map ?
>
> I implemented a similar technique in patch(1), minus the '\n' -> '\0'
> replacing; patch does not use NUL terminated strings internally.
>
> But it all depends on which data is being stored: just the lines from
> the file, or data based on the chars found in the file.
>
> -Otto
>
Yup,
I used this in (function splitfields) where the delimiter was chosen
with getopt:
http://etudiant.epitech.net/~veins/sort/sort.c
