FOR not loading files with extremely long line

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bodosko · #1 Post by **bodosko** » 24 Jun 2009 21:39

I'm having a problem...
When I use the FOR command to load a file that has just one realy long line (like 50000+ chars). it does not load and no warning error appears, looks like the file was loaded, but no lines were found.

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for /f "tokens=*" %%c in ("%file%") do (...)

Why ? How to correct this?

jaffamuffin · #2 Post by **jaffamuffin** » 25 Jun 2009 07:00

Yes. Probably some kind of limit.

There's probably another way you can do this, what is it exactly that you are trying to do?

bodosko · #3 Post by **bodosko** » 25 Jun 2009 14:19

Im trying to load this file to get some values of this line.
And write another file with these values.

More specifically, I want to get time and text values to make a subtitle.

jaffamuffin · #4 Post by **jaffamuffin** » 25 Jun 2009 15:42

i'd probably use sed or something similar to extract patterns of text.