Reading from an empty file

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• Subject: Reading from an empty file
• From: Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>
• Date: 2017年9月05日 16:13:45 +0300

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I wonder why the first read from an empty file returns nil rather than an empty string.

E.g. fp:read(10) --> nil

If the zero-sized file exists then it can be interpreted as a file containing an empty string (IMHO).

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Shmuel

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