large text file

hi there guru and all, i am working on a vb application to read data from text files. some of the files are okay to read but some of them are large size text files, when i run the application on the large text files i get an error stating out of memory....
is there a way that i can deal with this problem?
thank you for your time and attention, really appreciate it.

You can use FileSystemObject for this purpose.
Look it up in MSDN.

Regards,
The Beret.

Are you reading line by line ? If so then reduce the lenght of your read to a fixed number of characters.

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the problem is that the file treats the whole content as one line, each line is represented as chr(10) in ascii (FYI,this file is extracted from a solaris machine). there are 2 file sizes. the first one can be read although it does not extract all the information where i can use the idea of breaking each chr(10) into a vbcrlf then adding it to the table one by one. the other one might be a problem because the file size is too large for the application to open.
I would like to use the FSO approach to open the file first but then again, i do not know how to define FSO so that it will create a file object for the large size file.
if you guys have any workarounds for this , really appreciate sharing it. thank you for all your time.

hi, i am trying the FSO approach here is the snip of the code i'm using :


Dim fp as string

fp = File1.Path + "\" + File1.FileName

set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

set file = fso.opentextfile(fp, 1)

Do Until file.AtEndOfStream

Text1.Text = file.readall

Loop

set file = nothing





but when i run it, it prompts out object required, did i missed something?

If text files are getting too large, it is time to switch to a database. You may use Access and Ado or Dao. But if you know nothing about, better start doing some exercise with Access and with small questions here and there..



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hi, i'm using your approach, although there are a few people ask me to look up on DAO or ADO. But i'm not going to use any access table for this matter. i have already included the microsoft scripting runtime option in the references. but it still prompts me that an object is required.


Dim fso as new FileSystemObject

set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

set file = fso.opentextfile(fp, 1)




and the error highlighted

set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")




what could be the problem? really appreciate it.

There is no need to put the following line :

set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")




Since, you have already declared fso as New FileSystemObject.

Remove that line and it will start working.

Regards,
The Beret.

hey guess what...you're right...! thanx....errmm however there seems to be a bit of problem and i was hoping maybe u could help me. you see the reason why i wanted to use FSO to read text files because there are some large text files involved so i though if i used FSO then it would solve it. After taking out the line out of the code, the FSo seems to be able to open the text file selected and display it to the text. the only problem is that when it came to the large text files, the same problem occurs which is out of memory. does FSO have a file size limit too?
appreciate your time and attention.

Just how big is your text file?
And what exactly is the Out of Memory message that you get?
It would help if you post the code.

Regards,
The Beret.