2012/8/1 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> > Paul, > > On 31 Jul 2012, at 18:25, Paul DeBruicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there an easy/standard way to open an ascii file and iterate through > it line by line? > > > > > > I want to put several files contents into their own OrderedCollections > and then do awful things to them. The files are ~500MB each > > This uses code that is already in Pharo: > > '/tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :readStream | > | lineReader | > lineReader := ZnLineReader on: readStream. > Array streamContents: [ :output | > | line | > [ (line := lineReader nextLine) isEmpty ] > whileFalse: [ output nextPut: line ] ] ] > > Works with any line end convention. Check the class comment of > ZnLineReader. > > No, it doesn't work in latest Pharo 1.4 (14557) MessageNotUnderstood: FileSystemReadStream>>isBinary
Cheers, Hernán
