Re: string io?

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Apr 12, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Michal Kottman wrote:

> Do you mean the Penlight pl.stringio module?
> http://stevedonovan.github.com/Penlight/api/modules/pl.stringio.html

Hmmm… yes… possibly… at first glance Penlight doesn't support the 5.2 IO API (e.g. io:lines( '*L' ) )… I kind of recall something that did… perhaps the figment of my imagination though :)


P.S.

As an aside, Penlight's io:lines() method seems to silently drop the last empty line.

local stringio = require 'pl.stringio'
local aString =
[[

foo

bar

baz

]]
local aCount = 0

for aLine in stringio.open( aString ):lines() do
  aCount = aCount + 1
  print( aCount, aLine )
end

> 1	
> 2	foo
> 3	
> 4	bar
> 5	
> 6	baz

There should be 7 lines altogether.