Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:08:03 -0600
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On 12/1/2011 10:36 AM, John McKay wrote:

First, why do you say you are "not supper[sic] happy with the idea of
having to deal with this data using pointers and C api's ".

It's added complexity that I normally wouldn't have to do. If I could upgrade to 6.1, this would be a non-issue.

Second, what are you looking for in this data or intending to do?

Search the content and extract data.

david

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