Why is there no std.stream anymore?
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 11 21:21:51 UTC 2017
On 12/11/17 3:51 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 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?
Use the undead repository:
http://code.dlang.org/packages/undead
https://github.com/dlang/undeaD
https://github.com/dlang/undeaD/blob/master/src/undead/stream.d
-Steve
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