Re: [Vala] read file line by line

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mic <mictadlo gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Is this the best and fastest way to read a file line by line?
>
> > *static int main (string[] args) {*
> > *  FileStream infile;*
> > *  infile = FileStream.open(args[1], "r");*
> > *  char buffer[1024];*
> > *  int count = 0;*
> > *  while (!infile.eof()) {*
> > *    infile.gets(buffer);*
> > *    count++;*
> > *  }*
> > *  stdout.printf("%i\n",count);*
> > *  return 0;*
> > *}*
>
> Your code is buggy. See:
> http://valadoc.org/#!api=glib-2.0/GLib.FileStream.read_line

And also http://valadoc.org/#!api=glib-2.0/GLib.IOChannel.read_line and
http://valadoc.org/#!api=gio-2.0/GLib.DataInputStream.read_line . The
latter should be the most efficient as it's backed by a buffered stream.

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