Greetings,
I'm using 'Mozart Compiler 1.3.1 (20040617) playing Oz 3' in a Win2K
environment.
I'm using the following approach to read in a redirected text file from
stdin:
...{New TextFile init(name:stdin)}...
...
fun {LoadData FILE DATATBL}
case {FILE getS($)} of false then
DATATBL
elseof DATUM then
{LoadData FILE {Append DATATBL [{String.toFloat DATUM}]}}
end
end
...
I've used this read / load approach before with no problem. However, in this
case the attempted conversion to float is failing. A {System.show DATUM}
call reveals that the Carriage Return [CR] code is not being removed as part
of the read step; this is appearing:
[49 13]
rather than this:
[49]
I can certainly work around this behaviour by doing something like this:
...{String.toFloat {List.take DATUM ({Length DATUM} - 1)}}...
However, I would have thought that since the Line Feed [LF] code is being
removed as part of the read step, then so should the CR ?
According to the Oz documentation [Section 19.2] this is the case - CRLF is
converted to LF [provided the file is opened in 'text' mode], then, the
implied behaviour is that LF is stripped on reading. To ensure the
redirected file was so opened I altered the code to:
...{New TextFile init(name:stdin flags:[read text])}...
only to have the behaviour described earlier repeated.
My question then is: Is this a 'known problem', or have I missed something
in appropriately configuring the code ?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
Anthony Borla
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