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Re: [AS]Re: Read file questions ... again!
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Re: [AS]Re: Read file questions ... again!


  • Subject: Re: [AS]Re: Read file questions ... again!
  • From: Stephen Swift <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:10:22 -0400
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At 4/23/02 3:05 PM, Charles Heizer (email@hidden) Wrote:

> No, I dont think so? I have not been able to get it to work. If you say
> before the 8th char it will only read the first 7 chars, right? Well, I
> need to disregard the first 7.

I'm sorry if I didn't understand. Would this work?

read file1 from 8 to eof

It will start reading the file to the 8th and go to the end of the file.

Or if you want it to stop at a certain point (say the end of a line) you
could use:

read file1 from 8 until return

Does this help at all?

Stephen Swift
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