[julia-users] How does Julia handle files?

[Steven G. Johnson]

Note also that Julia is not limited to reading one line at a time. It had 
full-featured I/O that can read anything from single characters to the whole 
file, synchronously or asynchronously. But as Stefan says, there is a built in 
readdlm function (like Matlab) to read delimited text files into 2d arrays.