[CWB] [ cwb-Feature Requests-2891967 ] Read undump files without explicit line count

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Feature Requests item #2891967, was opened at 2009-11-04 15:57
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Category: CWB engine
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: Stefan Evert (schtepf)
Assigned to: Stefan Evert (schtepf)
Summary: Read undump files without explicit line count

Initial Comment:
The "undump" command in CQP requires an explicit line count header in the first line of the undump file, so that arrays can be pre-allocated.  This is a major hassle for exchanging data with spreadsheets, SQL database engines, R, and other software that would otherwise work quite well with the TAB-delimited format of dump/undump files.  Without this restriction, it would also be possible to use dump files as a platform-independent serialization format for query results (unlike "save", which produces unportable binary files that even store the registry directory of the base corpus). 

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