[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,

Oops, sorry, I didn't see that you wanted just the first line. Then the first 
one will be faster, unless you have very small files.


Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini