Anonymous user
Talk:Read a specific line from a file: Difference between revisions
Talk:Read a specific line from a file (view source)
Revision as of 04:08, 14 March 2012
, 12 years agoadded more comments about sparse files. ~~~~
(added comment about sparse files. ~~~~) |
m (added more comments about sparse files. ~~~~) |
||
Line 8:
==sparse files==
Some operating systems allow sparse files, that is, a file may have (say) the 1st, 2nd, 500th, and the one millionth record defined (four actual records), but it appears that there are one million records in the file, and almost all of them null (empty).
<br> The REXX language was developed on such a system, and as such, the built-in function LINEIN doesn't treat the reading of a none-existant record an error.
<br>[[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 04:04, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
| |||