• Gary Miller (22/22) Mar 27 2014 Once you read a text file using
• bearophile (7/11) Mar 27 2014 import std.string;

"Gary Miller" <aiguy roadrunner.com> writes:

Once you read a text file using

auto MyDictionary = import ("dictionary.txt");

how can you parse this into a string array stripping the CrLf 
from the end of each line?

I suspect there is some variant of the split library function 
that will parse it into a string array for me but because DOS 
lines end with the CrLf which is 2 characters I'm not sure if 
there is a way to do this with a one line call to a lib function.

And as I understand it with the import this file is read in at 
compile time so after it has been parsed into the string array, 
is there a way to free the storage that was used by the variable 
MyDictionary.

I like this method because it minimizes the number of files I 
have to distribute with my executable and prevents users from 
modifying the files but I don't really want to keep 2 copies of 
the data (imported and string array) in my program as the files 
brought in will be quite large.

I realize I could just read it old school a record at a time but 
that's usually slower and requires a bit more code.

Also if the files I am reading in have include references 
#include filename are the any lib calls that can read in the main 
file and expand the #include files as it reads.

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Gary Miller:

 Once you read a text file using

 auto MyDictionary = import ("dictionary.txt");

 how can you parse this into a string array stripping the CrLf 
 from the end of each line?


import std.string;

immutable myDictionary = import("dictionary.txt").splitLines;
//pragma(msg, myDictionary);

void main() {}

Bye,
bearophile