Thanks Richard, that does answer my question. Repeating for each line in an external url does load the whole thing at once. Someone remind me.. I think I read that the "for each" no longer creates a second copy of the data, is this correct? Or did it ever make a duplicate?
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Keith Clarke wrote: > > > It’s interesting that the url container can be addressed directly, > > instead of loading the file > > get url ("file:"& tFile) > > ...does the same as: > > open file tFile for read > read from file until EOF > close file tFile > > It's just more convenient than using the three-line method (which can be > very useful if you need for fine-grained control over the read, such as > reading in chunks or from a particular offset). > > Unless your files are much bigger than 100 MBs you should find loading > them into memory well worth the effort for the time saved parsing them thee. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode