Load File

[Martin Dorfinger Member Find all posts View Profile Close Martin Dorfinger]

How can I load a whole .txt file into one string?

[Paul Dixon Member Find all posts View Profile Close Paul Dixon]

Martin,
something like this:

FileHandle&=FREEFILE
OPEN "MyFile.txt" FOR BINARY AS fileHandle&
GET$ FileHandle&,LOF(FileHandle&),MyString$
CLOSE fileHandle&  

'MyString$ now contains the file.

Paul.

[Trevor Lane Member Find all posts View Profile Close Trevor Lane]

Check the limitations of your operating system for haw large a string can be (2 gig is the norm i think?). If your file is bigger than that; think again.

Also consider how much memory is in the average users system. (Specific to your users). If you keep hitting the paging file your performance will drop and you may benefit from doing things another way.

[Cliff Nichols Member Find all posts View Profile Close Cliff Nichols]

Maybe not a limitation of a string (or maybe a limitation).
Any file on a NON-NTFS format from my learning must be less than 2gig. (No I have no document as to why, but transferring a 12 gig file to a Win32 format USB drive, and the comment of Win32 only knows up to 2gig I would think my text vs any binary comment would hold true)