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Old 01-27-2008
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Originally Posted by KevinADC View Post
S_M's suggestion reads the file in chunks, not line by line, and looks like it should work although the last match might fail if there isn't two newlines at the end of the file. You will have to try it and see or maybe he can clear that up.
I think it'll be ok with a normal file termination - I tried it on a single newline and it looked alright but I havn't put a lot of testing into it for sure