Re: [BLACKBOX] How to concatenate ASCII files

From: [at]} <Robert>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:23:47 +0100

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Rainer

Using Texts (* may *) be simplest for small files, but is very slow for big
files (10's or 100's of M Bytes).

I would forget the files were ASCII and treat them as just Bytes. Use
Files.Reader.ReadBytes, Files.Writer.WriteBytes, and a buffer (10 kByte ?)
inside a loop.

Regards

Robert



On 26/07/2012 17:02, Rainer Neubauer wrote:
> Hi all,
> in the near future I will have to programatically merge two or three ASCII files into one new file.
> Does anybody have a hint how to do this in a simple manner ?
> I had a look at the interface of module WinApi but could not find a procedure for this task.
> Reading the files line by line into a buffer and writing the contents to a new file seems to be a bit nasty.
>
> Best regards,
> Rainer
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