Simple Line Input question

[cbbibleboy]

Howdy!
I'm importing a large file (213 MB) and parsing it. My question is: does the VB6 Line Input read the whole file, then select out each line, or actually only read that line. I thought it was the second case, but when I'm reading this file, it stalls like no other. A similar smaller file works, but I'm not sure that it should make any difference. (And STD_PROCESSES.G en_Rec.Record_T ype is just a fixed length string*1000)

Line Input #gInFile.hFile, STD_PROCESSES.Gen_Rec.Record_Type

[taylorjpt]

Line input reads until the first [cr][lf] sequence is encountered and then returns the string from the starting point up to but not including the [cr][lf]. This works great for text files done with notepad, but not so much with other files such as a word document where data is not on separate lines.

If your file is not broken into 'lines' with [cr][lf] sequences such as raw binary data, you will simply get a string as big as the first random [cr][lf] location.

Note that data pulled out of a file this way actually drops the [cr][lf] so the data read will always be less that the size of the file.

jt