Re: Buffered reading of stream files

Paul Raulerson wrote:

You realize that if you use fread(), all the buffering is handled invisibly for you? You just read however many bytes you want at any one time.

Yes. However, I need to deal with variable length records and multi-byte record delimiters. Unless I can reliably read the entire file in to memory (which is probably not the best idea for very large files), I need to handle the possibility that a record delimiter could span a break in the 'chunks' I'm reading.

Since I want to create a reusable procedure, I'd rather not make assumptions about the maximum record size, even though that could probably improve performance somewhat and simplify the code.