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Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string

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In article <f72f8ab852.Kevin@talktalk.net>,
   Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

The first questions are
 - how are you downloading the data?
 - How do you know how much data there is to fetch?
 - Does it go into a buffer in memory, or to a file on disc?
 - If the former, are you fetching one line at a time, or does it all
   come at once?

Memory is relatively cheap on modern machines - a DIM of say 8000 is
not excessive if that is the way to go. Once you have the data block
in memory, it is easy to step through the data one byte at a time
looking for commas for end of cell and control characters (LF, CR,
even NULL) to signify end of line.

If you want more detailed help, it would be better to take it to
private email. My posting address is valid for first contact.

-- 
Chris Johnson

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Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-07-31 16:48 +0100
  Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-07-31 19:22 +0100
    Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-08-01 07:27 +0000
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-01 10:52 +0100
    Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-01 19:17 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-08-01 20:41 -0700
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-02 10:39 +0100
        Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-04 18:56 +0100
          Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-04 19:56 +0100
            Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-08 15:04 +0100
              Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2012-08-08 23:15 +0100
                Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-09 15:14 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-08-02 18:35 +0100
        Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-04 18:58 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-03 10:37 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-08-10 14:15 +0100
        Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-08-10 14:23 +0100
          Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-13 19:19 +0100
  Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-07-31 22:20 +0100
  Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Duncan Moore <duncan.moore@gmx.com> - 2012-08-03 02:11 -0700

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