Lets clear up one point right now about Seek, it is for a Byte position in the file.
If you are just inputting lines from file with variable lengths Seek is a bad idea.
If each line is exactly the same size in bytes it might be a marvelous alternative to Input! ie you don't need both Input and Seek.
Update: Well maybe Input is redirected by Seek, so I correct myself and apologize I've only used Input to load up arrays to process faster with code in a one time load from start to EOF.
I did miss point that 4000 represented groups of 7 thanks for clarification.
Now if you add or subtract a group of 7 you are stuck with your 4000 hard coded in sub.
Can you make that a more flexible variable?
Thankyou @Balderdash for your support, I was thinking the bad idea comment was bad idea. I do want to encourage experimenting with new concepts, recursion is especially rewarding but tricky, so good for Dimster for trying and asking for help. I think it was the experiments with Seek And recursion both that had me confounded. I like to experiment with one thing at a time specially when playing with recursion.
If you are just inputting lines from file with variable lengths Seek is a bad idea.
If each line is exactly the same size in bytes it might be a marvelous alternative to Input! ie you don't need both Input and Seek.
Update: Well maybe Input is redirected by Seek, so I correct myself and apologize I've only used Input to load up arrays to process faster with code in a one time load from start to EOF.
I did miss point that 4000 represented groups of 7 thanks for clarification.
Now if you add or subtract a group of 7 you are stuck with your 4000 hard coded in sub.
Can you make that a more flexible variable?
Thankyou @Balderdash for your support, I was thinking the bad idea comment was bad idea. I do want to encourage experimenting with new concepts, recursion is especially rewarding but tricky, so good for Dimster for trying and asking for help. I think it was the experiments with Seek And recursion both that had me confounded. I like to experiment with one thing at a time specially when playing with recursion.
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