Declaring Strings

[Jaynetics]

Hi everybody,

My question is whether there is a method of declaring an array whose parameters are the contents of an entire file without copying and pasting? If you can hint at a function or two that can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

[oler1s]

My question is whether there is a method of declaring an array whose parameters are the contents of an entire file without copying and pasting?

Explain what you mean because your technical terminology is a bit wonky.

[weaknessforcats]

If I read your question correctly, you want to use the disc file irtself as an array.

That works fine if the disc file is not in binary. You can use seek/tell to move around in the file. This also allows updating the file directly in as random manner.

[JosAH]

If I read your question correctly, you want to use the disc file irtself as an array.

That works fine if the disc file is not in binary. You can use seek/tell to move around in the file. This also allows updating the file directly in as random manner.

Most (if not all) unix systems even have mmap() and munmap() functionality that maps (part of) the file directly to virtual memory. It circumvents a few read/write disk buffers as well. I don't know whether or not MS Windows offers that facility but they're nuts if they don't.

kind regards,

Jos