Thanks to all for the thoughts about this.
I have two things in mind:
1- The dictionary shows an example of reading from a field as if the field was a file. I think tat is an interesting concept and have tried to make it work, but have not been successful with that.
2- I am trying to determine the best way to repeatedly access various information from a file. Speed and ease of access are the concerning factors. Based on the information below it seems that just accessing the file repeatedly is the best solution.
jacque wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:13 pm
by jacque » Wed Aug 28, 2019 11:13 am
If you read the whole file into memory (i.e. into a variable) then the read commands no longer work. Use offset or other text functions instead. But reading from files is very fast, so usually there's no need to put the whole thing into memory unless you need to change something or manipulate the content in some way.
The example I used was just copied from the dictionary reading from the end of the file. With what I am doing I would read from the begging of the file not the end.