Re: How do I skip reading files with missing data?

And how, precisely, do you expect to determine that any given file "is missing the data" without reading it?

The answers above tell you how to read files and determine whether they have the format shown in your last snippet... but that is NOT the same as ascertaining the presence or absence of data without reading your files.

Imprecise utterances reflect sloppy thinking.

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Re^2: How do I skip reading files with missing data? by Ppeoc (Beadle) on Nov 20, 2015 at 00:55 UTC
My bad . I should rather put it as skip reading the file further	[reply]