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Old 12-21-2006
knowing progress while reading a file

Hi,
I am parsing a very big file say 10 MB. It 'll take more than an hour ..I want to know the progress say in % .Is there any way to do that???
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(Is there any way to know which line of the file I am in [ no modification in the source file] )
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Old 12-21-2006
Depends on what's parsing it.
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Old 12-21-2006
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