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<emberc...@optushome.com.au.NOSPAM> wrote:
>The application is a delphi console app....

>After opening a txt file for reading, is there a command to jump to the next
>line of the text file without having to read that line?

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>Also, if the text file were to contain a paragraph, then a blank line, then
>another paragraph, how's the best way to get delphi to take notice of that
>blank line and stop reading at that point  (or even start reading at that
>point)

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"Alan Moore" <alan.s.mo...@attbi.com> wrote in message

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> On Sun, 26 May 2002 11:10:54 +1000, "Embercide"
> <emberc...@optushome.com.au.NOSPAM> wrote:

> >The application is a delphi console app....

> >After opening a txt file for reading, is there a command to jump to the
next
> >line of the text file without having to read that line?

> Readln();  Given thus, with no argument, will advance the reading
> operation to the next line, discarding whatever input remains on the
> current line.

> >Also, if the text file were to contain a paragraph, then a blank line,
then
> >another paragraph, how's the best way to get delphi to take notice of
that
> >blank line and stop reading at that point  (or even start reading at that
> >point)

> readln(x); where x is a variable of type string, should do it. If you
> check the length of the string returned in x, it will be zero for an
> empty line. Of course if you have a line with nothing in it but
> whitespace, it will look to you like an empty line, but length(x) will
> return a value greater than zero.

> Al Moore

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"Alan Moore" <alan.s.mo...@attbi.com> wrote in message

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> On Sun, 26 May 2002 11:10:54 +1000, "Embercide"
> <emberc...@optushome.com.au.NOSPAM> wrote:

> >The application is a delphi console app....

> >After opening a txt file for reading, is there a command to jump to the
next
> >line of the text file without having to read that line?

> Readln();  Given thus, with no argument, will advance the reading
> operation to the next line, discarding whatever input remains on the
> current line.

> >Also, if the text file were to contain a paragraph, then a blank line,
then
> >another paragraph, how's the best way to get delphi to take notice of
that
> >blank line and stop reading at that point  (or even start reading at that
> >point)

> readln(x); where x is a variable of type string, should do it. If you
> check the length of the string returned in x, it will be zero for an
> empty line. Of course if you have a line with nothing in it but
> whitespace, it will look to you like an empty line, but length(x) will
> return a value greater than zero.

> Al Moore

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> ok i've gotten myself stuck already...
> What I want to do is skip over the lines in the text file until I come to
> the blank line, what I have is....

>       while not eof(filename) do
>          begin
>             while not eoln(filename) do
>                begin
>                   readln
>                end;

> I did a "trace into" in delphi to see where it stops, and when it gets to
> that end; it just sits there and doesnt loop the readln

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<emberc...@optushome.com.au.NOSPAM> wrote:
>ok i've gotten myself stuck already...
>What I want to do is skip over the lines in the text file until I come to
>the blank line, what I have is....

>      while not eof(filename) do
>         begin
>            while not eoln(filename) do
>               begin
>                  readln
>               end;

>I did a "trace into" in delphi to see where it stops, and when it gets to
>that end; it just sits there and doesnt loop the readln