NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/programm/misc/3588

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Subject: VB: Reading a file using a TYPE-defined variable
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:59:41 GMT
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  I've got a formatted file and I would like to open it as random access and
use a TYPE defined variable to read in a complete record at a time.  My
problem is that the first field of each record is a string (constant length);
the rest are all single precision.
  It seems that VB likes to automatically carriage return and line feed right
after reading a string and then continues as per usual - until it reads another
string.  This screws things up ROYALLY (so to speak).  Is there anyway to
override this ridiculous built in CR & LF?
  The only way I've been able to get around this problem is by reading an
entire record at once using LINE INPUT#, parsing it into substrings (this is
easy because the file is formatted), and finally using VAL to assign the
substring values to the SINGLE variables.  This involves 3 brutally slow steps
when it *should* be easy to accomplish this with only 1!!  This just isn't
going to work efficiently for large files.
  Has anyone got any better suggestions? (oh please, oh please, oh please...)

  Thanks A LOT in advance!

-Daren Stebner
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