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- From: d.olson@apple.com (Donald Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Importing/accessing text files
- Message-ID: <d.olson-181192125043@dolson.apple.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:55:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.155906.8559@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <jpugh-171192212010@kip2-56.apple.com> <1992Nov18.164034.15856@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.164034.15856@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>,
- crawford@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James E Crawford) wrote:
- >
- > I would like to thank everyone for their help in solving this problem. Your
- > assistance has been invaluable....
- >
- > But...
- >
- > 1) The read command only lets you import 16k at a time (according to
- > the Complete HyperTalk Handbook).
- >
- > 2) There is no mechanism to search backward in a file. (ie. you can read
- > until a certain character/word/whatever, but there is no way to tell HC to
- > "read until Mercutio then go back 100 lines and import the next 200"
- >
- > These are the problems confronting me now... Any suggestions? Will HC 2.5
- > remedy these? When will it be out, anyway?
- >
- > Jim
-
- Remember once you've read a file into it you can use chunk expressions on
- 'it 'such as:
- put the number of lines in it into Foo
- put line 100 to Foo of it into Gertrude
-
- and so forth.
-
- The 16K limit is no more in HC 2.1
-
- Donald
-