Re: Strings and reading from a file

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>]

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Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> a �crit dans le message :
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> Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> writes:
> [...]
> > However - enamoured as I am with the "perfect" solution that works for
> > any case that may arise - I'd wonder if in practice it isn't a bit of
> > overkill. In my experience with text files, most lines are less than the
> > 80 character width of a punchcard or glass-teletype. Probably 95% of
> > text lines are within twice that number. I can't recall ever seeing a
> > text line (in a standard text file like what would be used for some word
> > processing app - not a custom data file) which ever exceeded a 256 byte
> > string.
>
> No, it's not overkill.  I commonly work with text files containing
> lines hundreds, or even thousands, of characters long.  Most of them
> are machine-generated (log files and such).
>

Sure others cases are Web pages. Some generator do not add CR in the
HTML file. So a Web page turn out to be written on one line... I've seen
some
line (well page :-) that are more than 10kb long!

Pascal.