>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> writes:

    Oliver> Hello, I'm reading in a file linewise.  For some
    Oliver> operations I need it as one long string. [...]

Assuming a Unix (or Linux) plateform, I'll suggest to use
BigArray.char and BigArray.Array1.map_file which maps the file as an
array of chars. 


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