Re: io:lines() and \0

[René Rebe <rene@...>]

On Feb 22, 2014, at 19:02 , Elias Barrionovo wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2014 2:40 PM, "Tim Hill" <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > — io:lines() can only work reliably on well-formed text files.
> > — io:lines() gives no indication when it encounters a malformed text file.
> 
> On a side note, this is surprisingly consistent with the # operator, but let us not start it all over again.
> 
> My summary of the thread is: if something so fundamental (and supposedly simple?) as reading a file line by line is so complex, I'm astounded by the fact that computer systems work at all. =D
> 

I could could not agree more ;-)

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