in reply to Re: Reading a text file collapsing line continuations
in thread Reading a text file collapsing line continuations
If you have a really huge file, your solution needs a lot of memory.
Furthermore you will still need to loop over all the data to re-assemble the broken lines, so your code will not be much simpler.
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