Re: Reversing the lines in a file
Re: Reversing the lines in a file
- Subject: Re: Reversing the lines in a file
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:36:34 +0100
Paul Skinner wrote:
>
Why do you want to go and do all that thrashing around?
Oh hey, I didn't think I was *that* thrashy. :)
I guess you could take out the error trapping, and the droplet stuff, and
maybe one or two other bits n pieces if you wanted... nope, still not as
short as yours though.
>
The version I posted does none of that and reads, reverses, and writes a
>
text file with >25000 lines in under 10 seconds.
<sound of me scraping through digests>
Ah, found it:
read file ((choose file) as text) as list using delimiter return
Very neat. I never realised you could do that. [Duh is me.]
That said, when I tried yours on an 800KB, 25000-line text file, it took
102 secs to process. My old thrasher took just 1.1 secs Maybe something in
the 'read file' command OMM [1]? YMMV.
has
[1] G3/300, OS8.6, AS1.3.7
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