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Re: Putting lines from a file into an array

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Op dinsdag 4 dec 2012 10:09 CET schreef Chris:

> If I were writing it from scratch myself, I would either (assuming we
> know we'd always have a positionable file stream, or that we're allowed 
> to use ReusableStreamDecode) not read in the entire file at all, but just 
> find and keep the line(s) of interest at a given time.

Well, the way I now want to use it (never know about the future) is
that it is a small file (below 1 KB) and I want to use all the lines.

At the moment all the lines except the last in the same way. But that
properly will change. For example beginning a line with {l}, {r} or
{c} would mean that the line should be left justified, right justified
or centered.


> *Or* I would use (sort of) half of your solution, and use a dictionary as
> the "permanent" storage for the file contents, with the line numbers
> as 

Agree, no use converting a dictionary to an array, if you can loop
over both. ;-)


> the keys. In addition, I would have a single, large line buffer which 
> gets reused for reading from the file, then I would get the actual length 
> of each line, and copy it to a new, correctly sized string. Thus 
> minimising redundant memory use.

At the moment I leave the code alone. Done enough with it. But I am
still interested how you would do that? Just to learn the language.
And who knows: when my usage changes, it would maybe become a good
idea to implement it.

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

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Putting lines from a file into an array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-02 21:02 +0100
  Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-02 20:47 +0000
    Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-03 00:52 +0100
      Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-12-05 11:58 -0700
        Re: Putting lines from a file into an array "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 23:19 -0600
    Re: Putting lines from a file into an array John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2012-12-03 13:20 -0800
      Re: Putting lines from a file into an array "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 00:58 -0600
      Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-04 09:09 +0000
        Re: Putting lines from a file into an array John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2012-12-04 07:03 -0800
          Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-04 17:46 +0000
        Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-04 17:17 +0100
  Re: Putting lines from a file into an array "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-02 15:31 -0600
    Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-03 02:19 +0100
      Re: Putting lines from a file into an array "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-02 23:28 -0600
        Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-03 10:01 +0100
  Re: Putting lines from a file into an array luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 13:25 -0700
    Re: Putting lines from a file into an array JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-08-02 03:39 +0000
      Re: Putting lines from a file into an array luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 21:58 -0700
        Re: Putting lines from a file into an array Tonton Th <tTh@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-08-03 05:10 +0000
        Re: Putting lines from a file into an array luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 22:20 -0700
          Re: Putting lines from a file into an array luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 22:35 -0700
            Re: Putting lines from a file into an array JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-08-03 06:21 +0000
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              Re: Putting lines from a file into an array luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-22 22:31 -0700

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