tips on reading unknown format text file

[shetlandbob]

Hi guys,

I have a number of different format text files which contain strings and numbers which may all be on one line (10000+ instances) or maybe on multiple lines.

Any ideas on how best to handle this?

Thanks

Robert Cumming

http://www.consultantengineer.co.uk

 

[ArkM]

Write a scanner (with gettoken(), type() etc members) on char by char basis. Incapsulate a file as a binary char stream in this scanner. It's so comfortable (no troubles with line boundaries - simple \r\n as token separators)...

 

[shetlandbob]

Aye thats what I thought I'd have to do.

Cheers

Robert Cumming

http://www.consultantengineer.co.uk