Actually, i'm wondering how to do exception handling and resource cleanup in
iteratee, e.g. your `writer` iteratee, i found it difficult, because
iteratee is designed to let enumerator manage resources.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Eric Rasmussen <ericrasmus...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> A friend of mine recently asked if I knew of a utility to split a
> large file (4gb in his case) into arbitrarily-sized files on Windows.
> Although there are a number of file-splitting utilities, the catch was
> it couldn't break in the middle of a line. When the standard "why
> don't you use Linux?" response proved unhelpful, I took this as an
> opportunity to write my first program using the enumerator package.
>
> If anyone has time, I'm really interested in knowing if there's a
> better way to take the incoming stream and output it directly to a
> file. The basic steps I'm taking are:
>
> 1) Data.Enumerator.Binary.take -- grabs the user-specified number of
> bytes, then (because it returns a lazy ByteString) I use
> Data.ByteString.Lazy.hPut to output the chunk
> 2) Data.Enumerator.Binary.head -- after using take for the big chunk,
> it inspects and outputs individual characters and stops after it
> outputs the next newline character
> 3) I close the handle that steps 1&2 used to output the data and then
> repeat 1&2 with the next handle (an infinite lazy list of filepaths
> like part1.csv, part2.csv, and so on)
>
> The full code is pasted here: http://hpaste.org/49366, and while I'd
> like to get any other feedback on how to make it better, I want to
> note that I'm not planning to release this as a utility so I wouldn't
> want anyone to spend extra time performing a full code review.
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
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