read from file until a line begins with a certain word

[Matthias Rebbe]

Jacque,

thanks for that code sample. I was not aware that i can use EOF in a repeat loop as condition. I always thought that it only can be used in a read command like

read from file MyFile until EOF


Thanks again to all who gave feedback. It helped me a lot.

Regards,

Matthias

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> Am 17.09.2017 um 21:38 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> On 9/17/17 8:18 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>> concatenating a cr (or whatever line delimiter the file uses if opening
>> as binary) before mStart and reading from file until that string will
>> find all instances but the 1st line of the file (it the file starts with
>> mstart)
> 
> I think it should find the first line as well:
> 
> on parseFile
>  put "/path/to/file" into tFile
>  put cr & "mstart" into tDelim
>  open file tFile for read
>  repeat until eof
>    read from file tFile until tDelim
>    -- process the text here
>  end repeat
> end parseFile
> 
> The only hitch is that the last word of the retrieved text will be "mstart" preceded by a cr. But it wouldn't be hard to delete that and add it before the next retrieval, since the delimiter is a constant.
> 
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