Read text file, line by line?

[David Medlock]

David Medlock wrote:
> AEon wrote:
>> It seems *very* easy to open a text file in D, see below code (snipped 
>> from the
>> wordcount example from the documentation).
>>
>> <code>
>>    import std.file;
>>    // Open/read complete file into a D string! Nice.   
>>    char[] input;
>>    input = cast(char[])std.file.read(arg);       
>> </code>
>>
>> I checked the other command in std.file. AFAICT there seems to be no 
>> way to open
>> a file handle, and then read *line by line* from a e.g. config file?
>>
>> Does one need to parse the file as one char[] array block, and do all 
>> the line
>> by line checking by hand?
>>
>> AEon
> 
> Is this what you need?
> 
> 
> 
> import std.stream;
> 
> auto x = new File( filename, FileMode.In );
> scope(exit) { x.close(); }
> foreach( char[] line; x ) writefln( line );
> 
> -DavidM
> 
OOps. Fresh install of newsreader...ignore.

Hehe.