Hi - I’m doing a bit of log file processing with Pharo - and I’ve hit an
unexpected error and am wondering what the best way to approach it is.
It seems that I have a log file that has unexpected characters, and so my
readStream loop that reads lines gets an error: "ZnInvalidUTF8: Illegal
continuation byte for utf-8 encoding”.
For some reason this file (unlike my others) seems to contain characters that
it shouldn’t - but what is the best way for me to continue processing? Should I
be opening my files in a different way - or can I resume the error somehow- I’m
not familiar with this area of Pharo and am after a bit of advice.
My code is like this (and I get the error when doing nextLine)
parseStream: aFileStream with: aBlock
| line items |
[ (line := aFileStream nextLine) isNil ]
whileFalse: [
items := $/ split: line.
items size = 3 ifTrue: [aBlock value: items]]
My stream is created like this:
firmEfs := (pathName , '/' , firmName , '_files') asFileReference.
details parseStream: firmEfs readStream.
Should I be opening the stream a bit differently - or can I catch that encoding
error and resume it with some safe character?
Thanks for any help.
Tim
