Hi,
I'm just beginning to code with Blitz+ and, as my first project, I would like to open a MS Publisher file and extract some text out of it. Since I don't have the details of the .PUB file format, I plan to search within the file for a certain string which is always at the beginning of the text section I want to grab. For this, the INSTR command would be great, but:
1-How to put the entire file into a string variable without reading it byte by byte, which would be too slow
2- Is a 200K binary file too big to fit in a string?
Thnx in advance
I'm just beginning to code with Blitz+ and, as my first project, I would like to open a MS Publisher file and extract some text out of it. Since I don't have the details of the .PUB file format, I plan to search within the file for a certain string which is always at the beginning of the text section I want to grab. For this, the INSTR command would be great, but:
1-How to put the entire file into a string variable without reading it byte by byte, which would be too slow
2- Is a 200K binary file too big to fit in a string?
Thnx in advance