Re: reading a text file at certain timeouts

friend.blah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> i have a text  file lets say in this format
>
> abc abs ajfhg agjfh
> fhs ghg jhgjs fjhg
> dj djk djghd dkfdf
> ...
> ...
> .....
>
> i want to read the first line at certain time for eg : at 10clk
> and the next time when i am reading the text file for eg a timeout of
> 10 min (@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 10:10) i want to read only the second line skipping the
> first line
> and at 10:20 (again after timeout of 10 min) i wanna read only the 3rd
> line skipping 1st and 2nd lines
> and so on...
>
> this 10 min time is not fixed..it varies for line to line....i wrote
> this time for convenience...
>
> i tried with a counter such that when i read the first line i am
> incrementing the counter and comparing when i am read the next
> time...somehow i am missing something, i am not getting the proper
> result...
>
> thanks for any help..

This is more a programming question than a C++ question because the answer

would pretty much be the same in any language you used.

You haven't stated what you want to do with the line, nor what you want to

do while you are not reading the line so it's hard to give an exact 
algorithm.

It might be something like (in pseudo code):

store time into starttime
count = 1
bool continue = true;
while continue
{
   if ( ( currenttime - starttime ) > count * 10 )
   {
      read line count in file;
      if ( eof )
         continue = false;
      count++;
   }
}

Without stating what you are actually trying to achieve though the
algorithm 
can't be set in stone

-- 
Jim Langston
tazmaster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]