• Enjoys Math (7/7) Jul 17 2017 DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.1
• Nicholas Wilson (2/9) Jul 17 2017 I wonder if it thinks there is a BOM and eats it?
• Sebastien Alaiwan (4/11) Jul 18 2017 Could you please share the first 32-bytes (in hex) of your file?
• Steven Schveighoffer (10/22) Jul 19 2017 Looking at the implementation of readText, I believe its implementation
• bauss (8/31) Jul 19 2017 I'm feeling this. My keyboard sometimes messes up and will send

Enjoys Math <enjoysmath gmail.com> writes:

DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.1

import std.file;

void main() {
    string bigInput = readText("input.txt");
}

The file is 7 MB of ascii text, don't know if that matters...

Should I upgrade versions?

Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 02:21:59 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote:
 DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.1

 import std.file;

 void main() {
    string bigInput = readText("input.txt");
 }

 The file is 7 MB of ascii text, don't know if that matters...

 Should I upgrade versions?

I wonder if it thinks there is a BOM and eats it?

Sebastien Alaiwan <ace17 free.fr> writes:

On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 02:21:59 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote:
 DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.1

 import std.file;

 void main() {
    string bigInput = readText("input.txt");
 }

 The file is 7 MB of ascii text, don't know if that matters...

 Should I upgrade versions?

Could you please share the first 32-bytes (in hex) of your file? 
Like:
$ hexdump -C input.txt

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On 7/17/17 10:21 PM, Enjoys Math wrote:
 
 DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.1
 
 import std.file;
 
 void main() {
     string bigInput = readText("input.txt");
 }
 
 The file is 7 MB of ascii text, don't know if that matters...
 
 Should I upgrade versions?

Looking at the implementation of readText, I believe its implementation 
is not able to trim off the beginning of a file. Be wary of how you look 
at the result, some tools may "helpfully" hide things (like unprintable 
characters, or overwrite what has already been displayed when it sees a 
carriage return).

If you can't figure it out yourself, the best thing to do here is to 
post your exact file somewhere so people can diagnose. Or reproduce with 
a smaller one, and then post that somewhere.

-Steve

bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 15:18:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
 On 7/17/17 10:21 PM, Enjoys Math wrote:
 
 DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.1
 
 import std.file;
 
 void main() {
     string bigInput = readText("input.txt");
 }
 
 The file is 7 MB of ascii text, don't know if that matters...
 
 Should I upgrade versions?

 Looking at the implementation of readText, I believe its 
 implementation is not able to trim off the beginning of a file. 
 Be wary of how you look at the result, some tools may 
 "helpfully" hide things (like unprintable characters, or 
 overwrite what has already been displayed when it sees a 
 carriage return).

 If you can't figure it out yourself, the best thing to do here 
 is to post your exact file somewhere so people can diagnose. Or 
 reproduce with a smaller one, and then post that somewhere.

 -Steve

I'm feeling this. My keyboard sometimes messes up and will send 
invalid key presses to my OS which often ends up with invalid 
characters being written in files.

When I encounter it I usually open Notepad++ and turn on show all 
characters which will display unprintable characters, simply 
allowing me to delete them and have a clean file again.