1 GB text file

[Patrick Sannes]

Hello,

I want to read an 1GB text file in parts of 100 lines. When I use just a
simple stram/filereader, I think it reads the whole file, wich results in a
hanging machine. Is there a way to do it in blocks? For debugging this is a
lot easyer.

Patrick

[Bret Pehrson]

Patrick Sannes wrote:

Hello,

I want to read an 1GB text file in parts of 100 lines. When I use just a
simple stram/filereader, I think it reads the whole file, wich results in a
hanging machine. Is there a way to do it in blocks? For debugging this is a
lot easyer.

Patrick

I've used StreamReader.ReadLine() on 100+ MB files just fine, and it didn't
read the whole file, just that line.

[Patrick Sannes]

>>

Hello,

I want to read an 1GB text file in parts of 100 lines. When I use just a
simple stram/filereader, I think it reads the whole file, wich results in
a
hanging machine. Is there a way to do it in blocks? For debugging this is
a
lot easyer.

Patrick

I've used StreamReader.ReadLine() on 100+ MB files just fine, and it
didn't
read the whole file, just that line.

You tried something like:
StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(filename);
String input = sr.ReadLine();

??

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Patrick Sannes <pa*****@nospam.penan.nospam.nl> wrote:

I want to read an 1GB text file in parts of 100 lines. When I use just a
simple stram/filereader, I think it reads the whole file, wich results in a
hanging machine. Is there a way to do it in blocks? For debugging this is a
lot easyer.

How are you reading it? If you use TextReader.ReadToEnd it will indeed
read the whole file. If you just use ReadLine it will only read a line
at a time.

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[Bret Pehrson]

Patrick Sannes wrote:

Hello,

I want to read an 1GB text file in parts of 100 lines. When I use just a
simple stram/filereader, I think it reads the whole file, wich results in
a
hanging machine. Is there a way to do it in blocks? For debugging this is
a
lot easyer.

Patrick

I've used StreamReader.ReadLine() on 100+ MB files just fine, and it
didn't
read the whole file, just that line.

You tried something like:
StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(filename);
String input = sr.ReadLine();

??

Yep, just like that.

[Patrick Sannes]

I tried it and it works... Thanks

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Patrick Sannes wrote:

>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to read an 1GB text file in parts of 100 lines. When I use just
>> a
>> simple stram/filereader, I think it reads the whole file, wich results
>> in
>> a
>> hanging machine. Is there a way to do it in blocks? For debugging this
>> is
>> a
>> lot easyer.
>>
>> Patrick
>
> I've used StreamReader.ReadLine() on 100+ MB files just fine, and it
> didn't
> read the whole file, just that line.

You tried something like:
StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(filename);
String input = sr.ReadLine();

??

Yep, just like that.