Stewart Gordon Wrote: > Take these four cases: > (a) you want to process only files with a specific line ending style > (b) you want to know what line endings are used > (c) you don't care about what line endings are used, but still want to > know whether or not the file ends with one > (d) you just want to read the file line by line, without caring about > the line endings or the presence or absence of one at the end > > At the moment, readln is good only for (a). readLine is good only for > (d). If you want (b) or (c), you'll have to come up with an alternative > means.
I think, only (d) is important, all others are *strange* things. I usually use ReadLine in conjunction with WriteLine.