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Re: Where goes the "$"?
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Emmanuel <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 22 May 2003 09:46:26 +0200
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At 5:35 PM -0500 21/05/03, John A.M. Darnell wrote:
>Bill:
>
>   After some agonizing testing I figured out that what happens is that
>even though the documentation says that a READ...BEFORE command does not
>read in the delimiter, the fact seems to be that it does, and then
>discards it (i.e. does not provide it to the program).
>
>   Unfortunately the file is potentially huge (the biggest one on record
>is 127k) so I have to take the data a chunk at a time.

Do you mean 127 GB?

Emmanuel

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