How big the file can TextIO fetch and process

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I used TextIO api to process a txt file as size of 6,000KB and contains more than 5000 lines. My code can fetch the file and start to read, but will break before fully reading all lines. Does TextIO.read() has limitation for file size or number of lines to read?

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Martin Dráb 237,912 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Could you please elaborate what you mean by "will break"?

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Thanks for quick reply, Martin

Actually the myline = myfile.read() variable contains only part of lines in txt file, such as if 5000 lines in txt file then only 3000 read into myline.

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Hi Jerry,

Can you check if there is a size limit of your variable myline ?

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You are right, It has limit for Str type. Let me try Memo instead.

Thanks Leo

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Sergei Minozhenko 23,093 on at

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Hi TianJerry,

Did you mean that myline variable has a string type? TextIO.read returns a container of values, not a string value.

docs.microsoft.com/.../gg957997(v=ax.60)

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