Long KML text file with no return chars

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Terry,
Thanks. I'll try that method. 
Best,
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi William - you should be able to read a text file of that size into LC
> no worries. Have you tried the 'put url (³file:²&tPath) into tVar¹ method
> rather than using the Œread file¹ approach. I only ever use the latter if
> I have to deal with really big files (10s to 100s of MB or more).
> 
> Terry...
> 
>> On 19/03/2015 4:17 pm, "William Prothero" <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Folks:
>> Just wondering. I am reading in a very long text file (2.6Mb and 2.6
>> million chars) and it has no carriage returns. The ³read file until end²
>> statement hangs and goes into the spinning pizza of death on Mac OS
>> Yosemite and LC 7,0,4 and 7.0.3. I used textWrangler to insert hard line
>> breaks, which seemed to work fine, but when  I then added a ³replace cr
>> with empty in theData², it hung the system.
>> 
>> I suspect the long text file overwrote something and then the replace
>> function hung it up.
>> 
>> So, am I trying to do something out of the range of what Livecode can do?
>> I¹m wondering whether I should start editing the file into smaller files.
>> 
>> My overall goal is to convert the KML (a specific xml format) to an
>> array, using Trevor Devore¹s convertXMLToArray, for processing, then save
>> it back to a friendlier format for normal use.
>> 
>> So, do I just start editing the file into smaller files, or is there
>> another strategy that would be more efficient. I¹ll have to recreate
>> headers, etc, for each file, but it can¹t be too bad.
>> 
>> Best, 
>> Bill
>> 
>> William A. Prothero
>> http://es.earthednet.org/
>> 
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