Read from file problem

[Brian Yennie]

Dave,

How about something like this. Untested, but the idea is:

Read in the lines as if they are all "cr" delimited. If the first  
character of a line is a linefeed, then you just passed a crlf ending  
(so just delete the linefeed). For any additional embedded linefeeds,  
split them off as new lines.


read from file theXMLFilePathName until cr
put it into tLine
if (char 1 of tLine = linefeed) then delete char 1 of tLine
replace linefeed with cr in tLine
repeat for each line l in tLine
    processLine l
end repeat

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to read text files line by line, but have come across a  
> file that doesn't have consistent line endings. The command I use is:
>
>   read from file theXMLFilePathName until cr
>
> When I looked in the file it has some lines ending in cr, some in  
> lf and some in crlf.
>
> How can I read up to either of these characters (cr/lf) ?
>
> Thanks a lot
> All the Best
> Dave