I need a program called "FindLine"

[learn64bit]

phonetic alphabet font id
00h
  us english
01h
  uk english
...
FFh
  cn english

[jj2007]

And that is supposed to tell us ... what? 

Note that a nullbyte (00h) will always be interpreted as "end of string". If you want to avoid that, and see strings, you should add 41h to these bytes, so 00h->A, 01h->B, 0FFh->@ etc

[zedd151]

@jj... seems to be some sort of 'proprietary format'. Only learn64bit knows for certain.

[learn64bit]

Advanced English program
tables
  english phonetic alpahet
    id <- column
  english word
   word - column
   ....

a.txt and b.txt can be one of the tables

[jj2007]

Advanced English program
tables
  english phonetic alpahet
    id <- column
  english word
   word - column
   ....

a.txt and b.txt can be one of the tables

We believe you. Show us a medium sized table, i.e. more than 3 bytes, less than 3 gigabytes. And give us a description of the format, in real English please.

[zedd151]

We believe you. Show us a medium sized table, i.e. more than 3 bytes, less than 3 gigabytes.

Hopefully a table that will be equal to or less than the zip file size limit after zipping.    Hate to have to attempt opening that file. Would take eons.    (3 GB)


On second thought, a screenshot of it opened in the program where it is used might be helpful. Knowing that program name would certainly help too, learn64bit.

[learn64bit]

Idea update
A lady told me, I don't need b1. (a is 1gb. b is 1gb-1byte. c is 1gb-1byte. a1 is 1byte. b1 is 0byte. I can use b and a1 to restore a.)
I think she is right.
So now our FindLine will only use 4gb of RAM
  a, b, c and a1

4mb line memory will use HeapAlloc or something else, not AUPP

[thanks for everybody's advise]

[zedd151]

I can use b and a1 to restore a

Let us know if it works out for you. 

[learn64bit]

ideas still are welcome
I am just starting build it
I will go slow. so I can get more ideas. It means save more memory, program run faster!

[Thank everyone!]

[zedd151]

ideas still are welcome
I am just starting build it
I will go slow. so I can get more ideas. It means save more memory, program run faster!

[Thank everyone!]

[learn64bit]

next step
how should I load a and b in their memory

[jj2007]

next step
how should I load a and b in their memory

Let esi=FileRead$("a.txt")
Let edi=FileRead$("b.txt")

The Masm32 SDK has a similar macro. Just RTFM.

[learn64bit]

jj,
thanks for the idea

[zedd151]

next step
how should I load a and b in their memory

At the bare minimum (no error checking), I would use the api's:



CreateFileA (ansi) or CreateFileW (unicode) ; opens the file
GetFileSize                                                ; gets file size in bytes
GlobalAlloc                                                ; allocate memory buffer
ReadFile                                                    ; read file into the memory buffer
CloseHandle                                              ; close file handle
~~~


;; here you would do what you need to with the file (now in memory buffer)


~~~
GlobalFree                                                ; free the memory used


That is how I would do it... 

[jj2007]

The Masm32 SDK has a similar macro.

xHelp is your friend: mov edi, InputFile(lpfile)