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I probably should have mentioned that I am using a progress bar to show the
progress. I have increaced the speed a little by allowing it to update only
after 2000 characters have been read.. There is no apparent speed gain using
higher numbers.

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Anthony Wertz (aka Anomy)
Webmaster, RPG Infinity
http://rpginfinity.com
"Anthony T.W." <anomyw3@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3de14abc$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I am trying to parse "words" from binary files based on my set of rules,
> where allowable word characters are in a constant, so characters of
'A'..'Z'
> are okay characters for words. It will check each byte of the file and
peice
> the letters into words... Does that make sense? Anyways, the method I am
> using is really slow. It takes about 2 minutes to process a 704KB file,
when
> the the files it needs to process are usually around 1.5MB, and there are
a
> few of them. You can see where this could pose a problem. :P
>
> Right now, I use TFileStream.ReadBuffer to read each character, then I
check
> the character, then go to the next on. Is there a better way?
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> Anthony Wertz (aka Anomy)
> Webmaster, RPG Infinity
> http://rpginfinity.com
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