by Jonathan Orgel (1 Submission)
Category: Files/File Controls/Input/Output
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(4 Votes)
Read large text files faster. Reads lines in text files about 30% faster then the TextStream class. Skips much faster.
Inputs
Multiple functions see documentation in code
Assumes
Mail me at [email protected] if you want me to send you a zip file with a demo/test project. This project allows you to compare timings with
read, readline, get, skip, skipline and seek. It also has a test form to show that the functions skip/read correctly.
THIS CODE HAS BEEN TESTED UNDER VB6 ONLY.
API Declarations
Download FastTextStream (11 KB)
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