What if the item of interest is split by the boundary? See fapplylines in files script. These kind of contraints cause a lot of headache.
--- ramacd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DB; > > There doesn't seem to be an answer there. Unless you claim that the looping > solution is much longer, to which I say, where 'Process' processes a file: > > Process file > > a conjunction 'InChunksOf' will process the file in chunks: > > Process InChunksOf 2048 file > > and not be a byte burden. > > Is there some other benefit? > > >: ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > |\/| Randy A MacDonald | APL: If you can say it, it's done.. (ram) > |/\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > |\ | | The only real problem with APL is that > BSc(Math) UNBF'83 | it is "still ahead of its time." > Sapere Aude | - Morten Kromberg > Natural Born APL'er | Demo website: http://156.34.78.235/ > -----------------------------------------------------(INTP)----{ gnat }- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Bron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:58 PM > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Processing 1GB+ files without chunking > > > > Randy asked: > > > > >What is the benefit of not chunking the file? > > > > The intended purpose of the message to which this is a response was to > answer that very question. > > > > Put simply, the benefit of not chunking the file is: Not having to chunk > the file. > > > > -Dan > > > > PS, as an analogy: > > > > What's the benefit of not looping? > > > > That is, why write +/y instead of > > for (int i =0, sum = 0;i < len(y); i++){sum += y[i];} > > ? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
