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 <quico.jur...@gmail.com> 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,
>
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