From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,d93b7c6dd17cbc81 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Pascal Obry" Subject: Re: Strings and reading from a file Date: 1999/05/14 Message-ID: <7hgn8u$qgm$1@cf01.edf.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477739240 References: <7han2q$jkp$1@news.iinet.net.au> <37399913.BD928DD1@pwfl.com> <7hevh1$g08$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7hf2bc$imm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7hf611$16i$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <373B271F.EA28F9C8@pwfl.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Organization: EDF X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Keith Thompson a �crit dans le message : yecr9ok4rpn.fsf@king.cts.com... > Marin David Condic 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.