Thread: First project done Thanks to your help :))

Now I want to take a 300meg file and break it up into smaller files I can
read with text readers.

I just can not find how to read one file - write it out to lets say 40 files
I want to read by line for a given # of lines (I will have to just guess at
this),
then when I get to that # start writing to file 2 then to file 3 when I get
to 2 * the # then 3 *.....
figure there should be some way to set up an array (file0....file40),

I figure take my # say 10,000 move it to array(0), *2 to array(1).....

so when I get to array(1) 20,000 - I start writing to file out (array1)

Just not sure how to set it up and use arrays for files.

Thanks for any ideas.

Sam Marcotte

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 20:27:25 -0600,
  sam@casheze.biz wrote:
> Now I want to take a 300meg file and break it up into smaller files I can
> read with text readers.
>
> I just can not find how to read one file - write it out to lets say 40 files
> I want to read by line for a given # of lines (I will have to just guess at
> this),
> then when I get to that # start writing to file 2 then to file 3 when I get
> to 2 * the # then 3 *.....
> figure there should be some way to set up an array (file0....file40),

The 'split' command might do what you want.