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Asked: 2026-05-23T21:29:22+00:00

I am planning a Seaside app to hold text, a single instance which may

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I am planning a Seaside app to hold text, a single instance which may be up to, say, 5Mb. What kind of object is best for this?

I would also like to do some iterations over this text.

Thanks, Vince

Edit: Thanks for your replies thus far. The file is a CSV file that takes ~40 minutes to generate from a legacy finance system, so it must be pre-generated and stored. Each line is a customer record and I need to pull each one out and use the values as and when the customer logs in. Customer access is not predictable and interfacing with the legacy system to generate each line on the fly is a very last resort.

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    Given that the file takes that long to generate and that you need more-or-less random access to the file later on, I would opt for parsing the file and keeping the structured data in memory afterwards.

    There is a CSV Parser project on Squeaksource that you can use. It will create a structured object tree of the CSV records that you can use.

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