This is a problem in C as well... and the solution is to read the lines
yourself and then give those lines to scan.
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On October 15, 2015 1:16:58 PM PDT, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:
>I would like to read a connection line by line with scan but
>don't know how to tell when to quit trying. Is there any
>way that you can ask the connection object if it is at the end?
>
>E.g.,
>
>t <- 'A "Two line\nentry"\n\n"Three\nline\nentry" D E\n'
>tfile <- tempfile()
>cat(t, file=tfile)
>tcon <- file(tfile, "r") # or tcon <- textConnection(t)
>scan(tcon, what="", nlines=1)
>#Read 2 items
>#[1] "A" "Two line\nentry"
>> scan(tcon, what="", nlines=1) # empty line
>#Read 0 items
>#character(0)
>scan(tcon, what="", nlines=1)
>#Read 3 items
>#[1] "Three\nline\nentry" "D" "E"
>scan(tcon, what="", nlines=1) # end of file
>#Read 0 items
>#character(0)
>scan(tcon, what="", nlines=1) # end of file
>#Read 0 items
>#character(0)
>
>I am reading virtual line by virtual line because the lines
>may have different numbers of fields.
>
>Bill Dunlap
>TIBCO Software
>wdunlap tibco.com
>
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