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Re: reading large text file
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Re: reading large text file


  • Subject: Re: reading large text file
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:27:15 +0200

At 18:41 +0200 20/08/01, email@hidden wrote:

>How can I read just one line of the file at a time into a variable and then
>search for the string, stopping if I get a match and extracting the numbers
>on that line? If anyone has a better method for dealing with this, that would
>be appreciated too.

That's a one-(long)liner for Smile.

------------------------- tested
set {the_R, the_G, theB} to matchResult of (find text "([0-9]+) ([0-9]+)
([0-9]+) PANTONE 185 CVC" in (open theFile) with +class UsGR; given +class
by ;:{"\\1", "\\2", "\\3"})
-- {"255", "42", "48"}
-------------------------
(theFile being your file)

HTH
Emmanuel

PS
Here is the line of code as hexa for the list - only Ken has it all right.

736574207B7468655F522C207468655F472C20746865427D20746F206D61746368526573756C7420
6F66202866696E6420746578742022285B302D395D2B2920285B302D395D2B2920285B302D395D2B
292050414E544F4E4520313835204356432220696E20286F70656E2074686546696C652920776974
6820C7636C6173732055734752C820676976656E20C7636C6173732062792020C83A7B225C5C3122
2C20225C5C32222C20225C5C33227D290D


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