Read from file

[Bob Sneidar]

Only if you read the whole file. The result should be empty if you only read part of the file (I may be mistaken). If you expect the entire file is not too big to load completely into memory, it's probably better to read the whole thing (read from tFile until EOF) then parse it. Otherwise it may be better to read in chunks. 

Bob S


> On Nov 29, 2016, at 16:45 , Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Mark.
> 
> So I SHOULD see “eof” and NOT any other message if the file read is successful.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
>> This could be a number of strings, such as "file not open for read" or "file does not exist". There is no special string that indicates a particular error, e.g. the errors don't all start with "error". You have to check that the error is unexpected and doesn't contains "eof".
>> 
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>> Op 30-Nov-16 om 01:12 schreef Peter Bogdanoff:
>>> When I use:
>>> 
>>> read from file tURL until eof
>>> 
>>> to read from a file on disk, should I expect the <result> to always contain “eof”?
>>> 
>>> I’m suspecting there could be a a file read error while reading thousands of files and I want to catch that.What should I expect to see in the result when that happens?
>>> 
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