• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Apr 15 2009
• Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> Apr 15 2009

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Stewart Gordon Wrote:

 Take these four cases:
 (a) you want to process only files with a specific line ending style
 (b) you want to know what line endings are used
 (c) you don't care about what line endings are used, but still want to 
 know whether or not the file ends with one
 (d) you just want to read the file line by line, without caring about 
 the line endings or the presence or absence of one at the end
 
 At the moment, readln is good only for (a).  readLine is good only for 
 (d).  If you want (b) or (c), you'll have to come up with an alternative 
 means.


I think, only (d) is important, all others are *strange* things. I usually use
ReadLine in conjunction with WriteLine.

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

Kagamin wrote:
 Stewart Gordon Wrote:
 
 Take these four cases:
 (a) you want to process only files with a specific line ending style
 (b) you want to know what line endings are used
 (c) you don't care about what line endings are used, but still want to 
 know whether or not the file ends with one
 (d) you just want to read the file line by line, without caring about 
 the line endings or the presence or absence of one at the end

 At the moment, readln is good only for (a).  readLine is good only for 
 (d).  If you want (b) or (c), you'll have to come up with an alternative 
 means.


 I think, only (d) is important, all others are *strange* things. I 
 usually use ReadLine in conjunction with WriteLine.


So you expect text editors to discard both kinds of information?

I expect any text editor (don't get me started on Notepad) to do (c), 
and any decent text editor to be capable of (b).

Stewart.