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:>I need to process text files one line at a lime. 
:>
:>I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a convenient, efficient way to
:>read files a line at a time, regardless of the format of the text file?

I've found that using getline or any of the extractor-type
functions to be *extremely* inefficent(i.e. time-consuming).

If you don't need the portability, it's _much_ faster to
read the file using the DosRead() API in chunks that are
multiples of the cluster size.  Usually, for FAT drives
that's 4k.  I read at least 16k.  Then use a small state
machine to decode lines,blocks,whatever back to your program.
This is a convienient way also since you can not only handle
all the flavors of delimiters, but also comment lines,
tab expansion(another thing you forgot), quoted fields, etc..

This is just a bitch, but the latest 'C++' libs have so many
features, buffers, etc, that I have a hard time figuring out
how to effectively _use_ them.  This way, I'm in control.

If portability is a problem, you can use the 'C' lib fread()
instead.  It just calls DosRead on OS/2 anyway.

Setup a small class called textfile or similar with open,
close, readline;  That's what I do.


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