[Gambas-user] What is faster: OPEN or File.Load?

[Benoît Minisini]

> When I have different directories which contain text files, and I have
> to open each file and read only the first line of it, which one will be
> faster and more efficient:
> 
> FOR
> 	OPEN
>    		read first line
> 	CLOSE
> 	list.Add
> NEXT
> 
> or
> 
> FOR
> 	File.Load(...)
> 	Split(... chr$(10))
> 	list.Add(...)
> NEXT
> 
> Or wouldn't that be feasible in case of, say, 50 - 70 files in such
> directories?
> 
> Thanks for your comments :-)
> 
> Rolf
>

The second one is obviously faster. Just check the execution time!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini