Re: looking for efficient way to parse a file

Eric Martin <emartin24@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

I have a file with the following data structure:
#category
item name
data1
data2
item name
data1
data2
#category
item name
data1
data2
... etc.

Any line that starts with #, indicates a new category. Between
categories, there can be any number of items, with associated data.
Each item has exactly two data properties.

My plan was to just get an array that contained the index of each of
the categories

That suggests the categories are already in an array, or else what is the
index the index to? I'd probably not bother to load them into an array
in the first place, just parse it on the fly. Maybe not, depending on
where it was coming from and how big I expected it to plausibly get.

and then parse each item from there, since they are in
a set format...but I was wondering if there were any suggestions for a
more efficient way...

Efficient in what sense? Memory? CPU time? Programmer maintenance time?

Xho

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