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In message <77320ab952.wra1th@wra1th.plus.com>
          Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:

>In message <f72f8ab852.Kevin@talktalk.net>
>          Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >> What is the best way in BASIC for strings over 256 characters?
>
>> Yes please, the trouble is I don't know how long the line will be, as
>> what the application does is download the latest Euro Millions results
>> that are a csv file, and display the latest 11 draws one line at a time.
>>
>> Every so often the Euro Millions have a super duper millionaire draws
>> where they draw many £1 Million winners and last Friday's they had 100
>> which gives that line 1033 characters long.
>
>If you use RiscLua instead of Basic you can stop worrying about
>line lengths. Presuming you have downloaded the csv data to a file
>and that you have set a variable x to hold the file's pathname
>on your disc then

I've got RISCLua but I'm not far enough along the lines of it yet
reproduce Lcheck or any WIMP RISC OS app yet.
>
>  for line in io.lines (x) do f (line) end
>
>lets you apply a procedure f to each line of the file in turn,
>where "line" means a string of characters terminated by a newline,
>i.e. one record in a csv file. Breaking the line up into fields
>separated by commas (that do not appear inside quoted strings,
>of course) is easy, too, if you use the lpeg library.
>


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