read from file until a line begins with a certain word

[Matthias Rebbe]

What i forgot to mention was that the keyword also exists within the lines. But i have to find/read until a line which starts with mstart.

But anyway i will play around a little bit.

Thanks so far for all your comments.

Regards,
Matthias


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> Am 17.09.2017 um 12:55 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> On 9/16/2017 8:50 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> until today i used always put URL to read a complete file into memory. But now i have to process  really large text files with a size of 900 - 1500 MB.
>> I know i can read a file until EOF or so.
>> 
>> But how would i read a file until a line that starts with a certain keyword, e.g. mstart. I need to read until the line before that line which starts with mstart.
>> And then read from that “mstart” line until the next line before “mstart”.
>> Do i have to read line by line and check if the line starts with that keyword or is there also an other way? 
>> 
>> Maybe i am thinking to complicated.
>> 
> 
> Why can you not use the
> read from file tFilePath until "mstart"
> of
> read from {file /pathName/ | stdin} [at /start/] {until {/string/ | end
> | EOF | empty} | for /amount/ [/chunkType/]} [in /time/]
> 
> If you need to back up to reread the "mstart" string you can then use
> Seek to adjust the read position if needed.
> 
> 
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