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echoing lines of a large file #166257 08/12/06 11:31 AM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 242 London the city i love H HaleyJ OP Fjord artisan
OP HaleyJ Fjord artisan H Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 242 London the city i love	Hello I have a file with 306706 lines in it. when i use a while to loop through all the lines and echo them into a window mIRC will crash after say 400 lines. Any ideas on why this is happening or any workarounds would be appreciated. Thanks

Re: echoing lines of a large file HaleyJ #166266 08/12/06 12:45 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK	Well I don't know why it would crash after 400 lines but you'll never get 306706 lines into a window anyway, there's a limit on the number of lines a window can hold in it's buffer (display at once). As a note, if you're putting the entire file into the window you can use loadbuf or filter and it'll be thousands of times faster than looping with $read(), however that still won't overcome the window buffer limit I mentioned. There's no way to get around that as far as I'm aware.

Re: echoing lines of a large file starbucks_mafia #166294 08/12/06 10:15 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	/play is also much better for echoing all the lines of a text file to a window.

Re: echoing lines of a large file Riamus2 #166299 08/12/06 10:45 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK	How do you figure that?

Re: echoing lines of a large file starbucks_mafia #166300 08/12/06 10:51 PM
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 612 Aberdeen, Scotland B billythekid Pan-dimensional mouse
billythekid Pan-dimensional mouse B Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 612 Aberdeen, Scotland	i think he meant, in addition to your suggestions, much better than a while loop... btk Last edited by billythekid; 08/12/06 10:52 PM. billythekid

Re: echoing lines of a large file billythekid #166301 08/12/06 10:56 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK	Ah, I see.

Re: echoing lines of a large file starbucks_mafia #166304 08/12/06 11:22 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	Yeah, sorry. I said "also," but I should have made sure that I was replying to the right person.

Re: echoing lines of a large file Riamus2 #166385 10/12/06 04:34 AM
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Qb_Master Q	I have the same issue when I'm working with downloaded HTTP data. Long lines of text are hard to break up using a while loop, especially if you're analyzing the file for html tags b/c if you break them up at the wrong point some tags may be still left in there. P.S: If you think that's hard, try working with POSTdata files - in order to tell where each file in that list started I actually had to have it read a set amount, then read that minus 25 in position, then minus 50, then minus 75 before going on to read the next section of data lol. Now that was some crazy stuff! (Analyzing lengths of binary for certain values is not quite easy)

Re: echoing lines of a large file #166390 10/12/06 05:46 AM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	It would definitely be nice to have commands and regular variables expanded to accept longer lines of text.

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