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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: how to read a file into a array???
Date: 05 May 2002 07:20:10 +0100
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Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@attbi.com> writes:

> Don't bother.  Slurp the whole file into one big string and then
> parse and create an array of records containing indices to the first
> and last character of each word.  Write an access function that
> takes an index and returns the corresponding slice.

This isn't a general solution, though; how long a string do you need?
I suppose you could use file io operations, if your compiler provides
them, to work out the length first .. it seems unwise to get into the
habit of assuming a maximum size to whatever your input may be.