Re: io:lines() and 0円
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- Subject: Re: io:lines() and 0円
- From: Enrico Colombini <erix@...>
- Date: 2014年2月18日 16:16:34 +0100
On 18/02/2014 15.04, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
ANSI C says that about text files:
Data read in from a text stream will necessarily compare equal to
the data that were earlier written out to that stream only if: the
data consist only of printing characters and the control characters
horizontal tab and new-line; no new-line character is immediately
preceded by space characters; and the last character is a new-line
character.
So, there is no garanties that a text file with embedded zeros will be
read correctly, no matter how we implement it.
Another example is the "end-of-text" character (0x04 in Unix, 0x1a in
Windows) that terminates text files.
Just for the record: In my machine, the following program,
local count = 0
for l in io.lines() do
count = count + #l
end
print(count)
reading the Bible, takes ~0.07s with the current implementation and
~0.14s with this proposal.
I really can't see any advantage in making text file reading worse, just
to handle the nonstandard case "read a binary file using text file
functions".
Especially because the nonstandard case can be easily handled in other
ways, either in C or in pure Lua.
--
Enrico