On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 11:16:07 AM UTC+10, Seth wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm moving from Gzip.jl to Libz.jl, and am running into a problem. Gzip > used to allow a file to be opened using its methods even if the file was > not encrypted. Libz doesn't allow that. > > The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out a try/catch/finally that > works. Basically, I want this (pseudocode): > > io = ZlibInflateInputStream(open(fn,"r")) # this will succeed if fn > exists, even if fn isn't compressed > contents = try > do_something_with_io(io) # this will error if fn isn't compressed > catch >
Close io before re-opening it? > io = open(fn,"r") # so we try to open it as an uncompressed file > do_something_with_io(io) > finally > close(io) > end > > but this doesn't work (the finally statement fails, for one). > > What's the accepted way of doing this? >
