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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 5378] New: File.byLine terminator string

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           Summary: File.byLine terminator string
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: rejects-valid
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: bearophile_hugs eml.cc



This is the signature of File.byLine:

ByLine!(Char,Terminator) byLine(Terminator = char, Char = char)
(KeepTerminator keepTerminator = KeepTerminator.no, Terminator terminator =
'\x0a'); 

But on Windows the line terminators are 2 chars long (CR+LF), see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations

So I think the second argument of argument byLine() needs to be a string.

This is code I expected to use, that currently is not accepted:

import std.stdio;
void main() {
    auto lines = File("test.txt").byLine(File.KeepTerminator.no, "\r\n");
}

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After that bug report, a little enhancement request: generally on Windows I
usually open files with Windows-style line terminators, while on Linux I open
files with Unix-style line terminators, so if possible a better default for the
second argument of byLine() is a string constant that changes according to the
operating system.

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A workaround is to open the file in text mode, but I don't know if this works
well if you want to open a Windows-style file on Linux:


import std.stdio;
void main() {
    auto lines = File("test.txt", "r").byLine();
}

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Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei metalanguage.com> changed:

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Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei erdani.com> changed:

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PST ---
This is by design. The length name is special and defined to return size_t
compulsively. You may want to choose a different name instead.

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Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei erdani.com> changed:

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PST ---
Oops, wrong window.

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Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow gmail.com> changed:

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10:40:03 EET ---
Would it be acceptable if we special-cased byLine to strip a trailing \r if the
terminator is \n?

Often, the programmer doesn't know beforehand if the line terminator of a text
file will be \r\n or \n. A behavior close to that of splitLines would be more
useful than forcing the programmer to choose an exact terminator sequence.

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 Would it be acceptable if we special-cased byLine to strip a trailing \r if the
 terminator is \n?


Probably the problem presented in this issue has various solutions.

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12:11:08 PDT ---
*** Issue 9750 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

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Nick Treleaven <ntrel-public yahoo.co.uk> changed:

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07:18:09 PDT ---
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1458

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Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/7f76586e16623894c7b6119014f76ed7bfef527e
Fix Issue 5378 - Make File.byLine accept a string terminator

Add an overload of byLine without a default argument for terminator.
Before, byLine!string tried to instantiate "string terminator = '\n'",
which is invalid.

Note: This removes the default arguments from ByLine.this, but the
constructor was never documented anyway (unlike the range primitives).

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/5576d899af510de798b0d5aaa8bd13e6caebfbce


Fix Issue 5378 - Make File.byLine accept a string terminator

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Nick Treleaven <ntrel-public yahoo.co.uk> changed:

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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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