Why is there no std.stream anymore?
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
jordigh at octave.org
Mon Dec 11 20:51:41 UTC 2017
I'd like to read from a file, one byte at a time, without loading
the whole file in memory.
I was hoping I could do something like
auto f = File("somefile");
foreach(c; f.byChar) {
process(c);
}
but there appears to be no such way to do it anymore. Instead,
the stdlib seems to provide several functions to do chunked reads
from the file where I have to manually manage the buffer. I see
that D1 had a stream, but it's no longer here and I understand
ranges are supposed to be used instead.
What's the explanation here? Why is there no more stream and what
am I supposed to use instead? Do I really need to be manually
managing the read buffer myself?
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