seema
10-18-2006, 12:58 PM
HI,
I want to edit line a HUGE text file and save it. I just want to replace a couple of words from line 3,4,5;
Wat I am doing right now is reading the file,replacing line 3,4,5 by using a gmatch condition and then just reading the rest of the file and writing the result to a new file. My problem is that the reading is really slow and my purpose is just to replace few lines in the beginning. So wat can I do? Theres no "M" mode to modify file.I just want to copy the huge file as another using sysFile copy and just edit the line 3,4,5 and save it!
any thoughts?
I want to edit line a HUGE text file and save it. I just want to replace a couple of words from line 3,4,5;
Wat I am doing right now is reading the file,replacing line 3,4,5 by using a gmatch condition and then just reading the rest of the file and writing the result to a new file. My problem is that the reading is really slow and my purpose is just to replace few lines in the beginning. So wat can I do? Theres no "M" mode to modify file.I just want to copy the huge file as another using sysFile copy and just edit the line 3,4,5 and save it!
any thoughts?