Re: [Pharo-users] iterating through an ascii file by line

Paul, On 31 Jul 2012, at 18:25, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there an easy/standard way to open an ascii file and iterate through it line by line?

I want to put several files contents into their own OrderedCollections and then do awful things to them. The files are ~500MB each

This uses code that is already in Pharo: '/tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :readStream | | lineReader | lineReader := ZnLineReader on: readStream. Array streamContents: [ :output | | line | [ (line := lineReader nextLine) isEmpty ] whileFalse: [ output nextPut: line ] ] ] Works with any line end convention. Check the class comment of ZnLineReader. Sven