You can read for x characters then check the result for empty. So no you do not
need to read the entire file into memory.
Bob S
> On May 10, 2022, at 12:14 , Mark Clark via use-livecode
> wrote:
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> Thanks Tom, Mike and Craig. Sorry for the late response, I’m on the digest
> version.
>
>
Thanks Tom, Mike and Craig. Sorry for the late response, I’m on the digest
version.
My thought was that an open file for read does not require placing the whole
file into memory. Am I mistaken in that assumption? Seems like it would be nice
to not use all of the available memory to run the
