I'm looking for what William describes for a project here at work.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Slava Pestov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:17 PM, William Tanksley, Jr
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does Factor have a read-delimited-record facility for binary data?
>> Naturally, you'd have to set up the reader with the information about
>> how to break the stream into records.
>
> There's a read-until word, which might be what he wants.
>
>> ...On the other hand, if he's reading lines, I don't see any reason
>> not to use an explicit encoding. Perhaps he's worried about staying
>> 8-bit clean, and thinks the ASCII encoding will error out if the high
>> bit is set... Will it?
>
> The ASCII encoding throws an error if the high-bit is set on an octet
> read from the stream, because ASCII is only defined for octets in the
> range 0..127.
>
> Slava
>
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