[silpa-discuss] Re: Help required in solving an issue

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hi ,
Laxminarayan thanks for the prompt reply. I tried out your suggestion but 
still this doesn't work. If you can find something more in my script please let 
me know 

Thanks and Regards
Vasudev Kamath
On Thursday 29 Apr 2010 9:05:35 am Laxminarayan Kamath wrote:
> No no, He is first calculating byte offsets for each line and storing
> in array (that happens in loadLineOffsets function (he got that from
> some stackoverflow thread).  Then he uses the offsets to quickly jump
> to the required line. If I am not wrong ,  in line no 44 he is doing
> 
>           fp.seek(line_offsets[int(lineno)])
> 
> which causes off by 1 error .. If he wanted 50th line's byte offset it
> is getting offset of 51st line.
> 
> I think
> 
>           fp.seek(line_offsets[int(lineno) -1 ])
> 
> is correct
>