help need to "read from file until xxxx OR yyyy OR zzzz"

[Ken Ray]

On 12/12/04 4:09 PM, "Randy Padawer" <padawer at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi, I would appreciate any help anyone may offer. Let's say a text
> file occasionally includes the words dogs, cats, and fleas. I need to
> "read until" any of these words without skipping any.

Is there some reason you don't want to read the entire file into a variable
and then work with the data from there?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com