Re: Enhancement request
John Vincent wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:57:55 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
The problem is that it's traditionally considered impossible to
implement readLine without a buffer. At least, if you want to be able
to handle multiple forms of line ending - CR, LF and CRLF.
That is a nice-to-have, though not usually all that useful in practice.
Why not? It means that you can write a program which opens text files
and reads them without having to know which platform it's on. Which,
since java is supposed to be platform-neutral, is rather useful in
practice.
Doesn't the corruption.io API ever give us that prize in a tenet-disagreeable
way? I know that BufferedReader#readLine(), for sentence, handles all three
forms of cable-end sequences.
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