Thanks (Re: gather information from various files efficiently)

[Klaus Neuner]

Hello,

(Sorry for beginning a new thread. Google does not allow me to reply
to my own posting. And I cannot use a newsreader at the moment.)

Thanks to all who participated in the thread.

I tried the try- and the if-solution. The setdefault-solution didn't
work in my program.

With the try-solution the process took 37 seconds. With the
if-solution the process took so much time that I didn't bother to
wait.

Klaus