Re: Source.fromFile(file).getLines

> How would you tell apart a line that ends in "\n" with one that doesn't? The
> method getLines doesn't strip away any characters present in the file.
> Which, by the way, is pretty standard behavior. In Perl, for instance, you
> need to "chomp" away newlines if you don't want them. Likewise, in Scala,
> you need to stripLineEnd newlines if you don't want them.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clarkson@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> ricky@ricky-desktop:~$ cat test.scala
>> import scala.io.Source
>> import java.io.File
>>
>> object Main {
>>        def main(args: Array[String]) {
>>                for (line <- Source.fromFile(new
>> File("test.scala")).getLines)
>>                        print("("+line+")")
>>        }
>> }
>>
>>
>> ricky@ricky-desktop:~$ scalac test.scala
>> ricky@ricky-desktop:~$ scala Main
>> (import scala.io.Source
>> )(import java.io.File
>> )(
>> )(object Main {
>> )(      def main(args: Array[String]) {
>> )(              for (line <- Source.fromFile(new
>> File("test.scala")).getLines)
>> )(                      print("("+line+")")
>> )(      }
>> )(}
>> )(
>> )(
>> )
>>
>> Note that I used print instead of println.  I can't imagine it's a
>> good thing to have line contain a line terminator of any kind.
>>
>> 2009/7/9 Daniel Sobral <dcsobral@...>:
>> > No, not expected. I don't get that either. Try doing map(_ map(_
>> > toInt)) to
>> > the result of getLines. Maybe you are getting "\r\n" and confusing it
>> > with
>> > "\n\n".
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Gilles SCOUVART
>> > <Gilles.SCOUVART@...>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I was surprised to notice that using Source.fromFile(file).getLines on
>> >> a
>> >> file with empty lines, those were added to the previous non empty line.
>> >> I.e. if the file contains this:
>> >> ------
>> >> test
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ------
>> >> then getLines.next would return "test\n\n" (written java-echap-style).
>> >> I expected it would iterate on three lines instead: "test", "", and "".
>> >> This is a little bit annoying for pattern matching on full lines...
>> >>
>> >> Is this expected behaviour?
>> >>
>> >> Gilles Scouvart.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel C. Sobral
>> >
>> > Something I learned in academia: there are three kinds of academic
>> > reviews:
>> > review by name, review by reference and review by value.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral
>
> Something I learned in academia: there are three kinds of academic reviews:
> review by name, review by reference and review by value.
>