file reading by record separator (not line by line)

[Lee Sander]

I wanted to also say that this file is really huge, so I cannot
just do a read() and then split on ">" to get a record
thanks
lee

On May 31, 1:26 pm, Lee Sander <lesa... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I would like toreada really hugefilethat looks like this:
>
> > name1....
>
> line_11
> line_12
> line_13
> ...>name2 ...
>
> line_21
> line_22
> ...
> etc
>
> where line_ij is just a free form text on that line.
>
> how can ireadfileso that every time i do a "read()" i get exactly
> onerecord
> up to the next ">"
>
> many thanks
> Lee