Yes, in my todo, but changing FileReference like that will break a lot of backwards compatibility :)
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes this is why we should continue to clean and remove cruft. Now I > remember that guille did that for File. > > Stef > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> > wrote: > > If you do > > > > (File named: '/tmp/lines.txt') readStream[Do:] > > > > you seem to get a binary stream (this is the new implementation I > guess), when you go via FileReference you get a character stream (but that > are old ones). > > > > I know, very confusing. We're always in the midst of transitions. > > > >> On 2 Oct 2017, at 15:17, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Sven I do not see the binary stream. Is it ZnCharacterReadStream? > >> > >> Stef > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> > wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>>> On 2 Oct 2017, at 13:07, Dirk Olmes <d...@xanthippe.ping.de> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I'm trying to get started with Pharo doing something really simple - > at > >>>> least that's what I thought ... I'm trying to read a text file line > by line. > >>>> > >>>> If I use File named: '/tmp/linex.txt' readStream nextLine I'll get a > >>>> debugger telling me that BinaryFileStream does not understand > nextLine. > >>>> > >>>> Now I've tried my best to find a stream that may be reading plain text > >>>> lines but to no avail ... > >>>> > >>>> Help! > >>>> > >>>> -dirk > >>> > >>> $ cat > /tmp/lines.txt > >>> one > >>> two > >>> three > >>> > >>> (FileLocator temp / 'lines.txt') contents lines. > >>> > >>> '/tmp/lines.txt' asFileReference contents lines. > >>> > >>> '/tmp/lines.txt' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :in | > >>> Array streamContents: [ :out | > >>> [ in atEnd ] whileFalse: [ out nextPut: in nextLine ] ] ]. > >>> > >>> (File named: '/tmp/lines.txt') readStreamDo: [ :in | > >>> | characterStream | > >>> characterStream := ZnCharacterReadStream on: in. > >>> Array streamContents: [ :out | > >>> [ characterStream atEnd ] whileFalse: [ out nextPut: > characterStream nextLine ] ] ]. > >>> > >>> They all return #('one' 'two' 'three'). > >>> > >>> In the last, more complex example, you first get a binary stream (and > a 'line' is a character based concept), so wrapping the binary stream in a > character read stream (which does know about lines) solves the problem. > >>> > >>> HTH, > >>> > >>> Sven > >> > > > > > > -- Guille Polito Research Engineer Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille CRIStAL - UMR 9189 French National Center for Scientific Research - *http://www.cnrs.fr <http://www.cnrs.fr>* *Web:* *http://guillep.github.io* <http://guillep.github.io> *Phone: *+33 06 52 70 66 13