Re: readln() returns new line charater

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 17:07:23 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/28/13 8:49 AM, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
Why is when you do readln() the newline character (\n) gets 
read too?
Wouldn't it make more sense for that character to be stripped 
off?

So you know that if it returns an empty string the file is done.

And also so a readln/writeln loop preserves line endings.