On Wed, 01 May 2013 06:56:47 -0700, Tim Keating <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 May 2013 at 04:33:28 UTC, anonymous wrote:
Just outBuf ~= buf.dup; works, too. Without .dup you're overwriting and
appending the same chunk of memory again and again.
From the documentation on File.readln
(<http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio#readln>): "Note that reusing the
buffer means that the previous contents of it has to be copied if
needed."
I'm a bit puzzled as for why it behaves differently with dchar.
Okay, that was obviously the bit I was missing. The dchar situation IS
baffling -- if that hadn't worked, I would have been more certain I was
simply doing something wrong.
Note that it could have worked even with utf8 depending on the input
file. Although I agree the library code is not ideal, this is not an
excuse ;)
-Steve
