Devin, did you mean read-line from the old clojure.contrib.io? http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_contrib/clojure.contrib.io/read-lines
Click the "+" symbol next to "Source" to see source code, also available here: https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/061f3d5b45657a89faa335ffa2bb80819f2e6918/src/main/clojure/clojure/contrib/io.clj#L302 Andy On Oct 26, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Devin Walters wrote: > I usually wind up with the line-seq from old contrib. Could you be more clear > about what isn't satisfying about that? For me it usually boils down to: it's > unsatisfying that core line-seq doesn't do that by default. > > '(Devin Walters) > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Dave Ray <dave...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> At work I've had a few conversations about treating files, especially >> large ones, as seqs of lines. In particular, the apparent conflict >> between using clojure.core/with-open to ensure a file is closed >> appropriately, and clojure.core/line-seq as a generic sequence of >> lines which may be consumed by code that has no idea it's coming from >> a file. I've been told [1] that C# solves this problem because the >> IEnumerator interface is disposable so it's possible to clean up the >> underlying file, even if it's been wrapped in several layers of >> enumerators... and that since Clojure doesn't do this, it's flawed :) >> >> Thoughs? I'm aware of the "custom seq that closes the file when the >> end is reached" hack, but that doesn't seem very satisfying. How do >> others process large files in Clojure? Just make sure that the >> sequence is totally consumed within with-open? Just don't worry about >> closing files? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave >> >> >> [1] My C# experience is limited to a few days of writing example code >> for the C# bindings of a product's API. :) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your >> first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
