I cannot reproduce this behavior on my Mac 10.11. After reading the code of the library, I also don’t see why Linux should behave differently. The file’s history also doesn’t show a problem report concerning this issue. — Matthias
> On Apr 15, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Quico Jurado <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, I posted this question in SO, but hoping to get more answers here. > > I'm reading Part two from the 2htdp book, and I'm curious about the behavior > of the read-words/line function that lives under 2htdp/batch-io. > > I created two different files, the first file having a \n at the end of the > file and the second file without it, like this: > > echo -ne "first line\n\nthird line\n" > file1.txt > echo -ne "first line\n\nthird line" > file2.txt > > if I read each one of the files with the read-words/line, this is the result: > > (read-words/line "doc/book/htdp2/data/file1.txt") > ; => '(("first" "line") () ("third" "line")) > > (read-words/line "doc/book/htdp2/data/file2.txt") > ; => '(("first" "line") () ("third" "line")) > > It looks that the function isn't preserving the information from the last > newline character in the first file. > > Is that behavior intended? > > I'm Running Dr Racket 6.2.1 on a GNU/Linux box. > > Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
