On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:40 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC

<mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:

> How do I determine the # of rows in a fixed-width flat file?  I want to

> provide a progress update in the loop so I know how much % of the file

> has been processed.  I'm trying to avoid reading the entire file in with

> ALINES.  (But I guess maybe I could do that but it seems like too much

> overhead.)

You are possibly blowing the wad on the string that you are generating?

Loop of reading lines

Str = str + "contents of this new line"

end

Even though it is the same name you are duplicating in memory what you

had to make the appended string.

I don't know when your pointers get released in VFP strings but as a

WAG this is where your memory hole is.

Have played with 1.2 and 1.5 gig xml files in ram before with no real

problem on workstations that only had 3 gig of ram. Teh process that

did monthly reporting I expanded to annual. ;-> made a bit bigger

output didn't it.

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