Usually you should be using eachline instead of readlines, especially for
large files, because they return an iterator and does not allocate strings
for the individual lines, so that garbage collection can free the
intermediary strings.
kl. 04:19:25 UTC+1 tirsdag 11. mars 2014 skrev Peter Simon
Thank-you to Tony for straightening me out (off-line). As clearly stated
in the help, readchomp() is *supposed* to return a single string, and only
strips newlines from the very end. What I wanted was
lines = open("test.txt","r") do fid
map(chomp,readlines(fid))
end
which works fine.
S
+1 for more "doing-the-right-thing"-ness wrt annoying carriage returns.
Semi-related: in test/spawn.jl, the tests on lines 17 and 23 fail when run
in a Windows command prompt but succeed from an MSYS/Cygwin terminal
because they pipe to whichever sort.exe is found in PATH, and lines are
termina
