std.file.readText() extra Line Feed character

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:22:01 +0000
Colin via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 22:29:30 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> > On 12/18/2014 02:51 AM, Colin wrote:
> >
> > > > vi, and it does indeed have a '\n' at the end of file.
> > >
> > > Ah, I see. That's a little annoying.
> >
> > It looks like there are ways of dealing with it:
> >
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050640/vim-disable-automatic-newline-at-end-of-file
> >
> > Ali
> > "happy with Emacs :p"
> 
> Does emacs do this aswell? :)
> 
> Anyway, I'm making a tool which will be in use by a range of
> people, so making the tool accept inputs with \n or not would be
> the better choice than getting everyone to ensure they dont have
> \n at the end of every file.

p.s. in D string slicing cost almost nothing and it doesn't need to
scan the whole string to find it's length, so stripping is very cheap.
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