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...contain records on households, families and individuals, each with distinct record types all in the same file. I'm trying to efficiently read these files, the following function reads the data file "indata", the records are described in lists contained in "dd_by_type" and flag_pos gives the character position in the data which indicates which record type to be used, the function i've written "works" (see below, please) but it's awful at its job, it has to perform two read operations and one write operation per line, and I don't know how to make it mo...