open and read commands

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting fp (Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:22:21 -0700):

> Ken posted:
[...]
>> I'm not sure where you think that SEEK() fits into things here.  If you
>> want to sequentially read the file, then READLINE() all by itself will
>> suffice, as each call will return the next line.  (Assuming, of course,
>> that each thing you want to read is terminated with a newline.)
>>
>
> I stand corrected!
>
> I think to remember having experienced unexpected behavior when using
> readline() on a file where each line had different lengths (terminated
> with newline).  When I ran the loop, I think the line termination made
> no difference and the string returned was based on chucks/blocks of
> data determined by the given parameters ...

Were you, perhaps, reading into a fixed-length field?

[...]
> The truth is that I gave up on readline() then since I found it too
> cumbersome compared to import ... and since all I wanted was to read a file
> sequentially, import did the job pretty easily.
>
> That said, I will bring myself up to speed with readline() thanks to your
> explanation.

Feel free to use whichever works better for your situation.  I certainly
won't stop you, and neither will filePro.  :-)

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