Carriage Return or Not?

[emergencyplan]

Hello,

I am building an application for reading and displaying digital elevation files. The files are created by flood inundation prediction software, programmed in C++.

The file consist of a header and the elevation values, the header consist of five lines, seperated by what I believe to be a carriage return (Enter?).

I having been trying to use the input #1 structure, however the end of a line is not recognised in the code and therefore the string is read as 29000 characters long.

I have tried using instr(1,mystring,vbcr) to find the carriage returns, without success. When I open the file in notepad the file is not seperated onto different lines, whereas in Word or Wordpad it is.

Any ideas why this is causing a problem?

Thanks,

Laurence

 

[emergencyplan]

Hello

Problem solved, it was a line feed, not a carriage return.

Fantastic,

Laurence

 

[JohnYingling]

Fixed length or using Lf. Try reading as many characters as you think are in a record into a byte array and then

For I = 0 to UBound(aryByt)
Debug.print aryByt(i) & " ";
Next

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[chiph]

Something every programmer should have is a good hex editor to let you inspect data & files. I use HexEdit from:

http://www.expertcomsoft.com/

Chip H.


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