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Ron Hudson wrote:
I am reading through a file that has variable length records, records
are separated
with a line containing only the "&". The last line in the file has "&&".
repeat
aline = read.io()
if aline == "&" then
count = count + 1
end
until aline == "&&"
Neither "&" or "&&" are ever detected.
I have checked the file... & and && are the only thing in the line.
I also have ">" .. aline .. "<" printed and see >&<
I don't know what your read.io function is, but I hope it really returns only one line per call... Now, perhaps you should also check if the line includes the end-of-line character(s) (\n, \r or \r\n). If that's the case, trim them off with a gsub.
-- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --