read a very big single line txt file and split it

Question

I have the following problem: I have a file which is nearly 500mb big. Its text, all in one line. The text is seperated with a virtual line ending, its called ROW_DEL and is

Answer 1

Read this file in chunks, for example use StreamReader.ReadBlock in c#. You can set the maximum number of characters to read there.

For each readed chunk you can replace ROW_DEL to \r\n and append it to new file.

Just remember to increase current index by the number of character you just read.