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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Re: Putting lines from a file into an array
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Op zondag 2 dec 2012 21:47 CET schreef Chris:

> The values get overwritten because you only allocate one string for the
> lines to be read into ("/buffer 80 string def"), then reuse it for each 
> iteration through the loop.
>
> Something like:
>
> /inputFile INPUT (r) file def
> /linearray
> [
> {
> inputFile 80 string readline
> not
> {
> pop inputFile closefile
> currentdict /inputFile undef
> exit
> } if
> } loop
> ]
> def
>
>
> will give you the lines of the file in an array called "linearray".

Works like a charm. Thanks.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof