Comments on curious-attempt-bunny: Node: Reading Every Line in a File

@Peter Cheers @Trevor I'd seen that same Quor...

2012-01-11T12:13:08.258-08:00

@Peter
Cheers

@Trevor
I'd seen that same Quora page. There certainly are a number of them. They're not all such quality though, or perhaps I just been unlucky.

@Steve
My file was 600Mb. I *could* have read it all into memory. The readFileSync route is definitely more concise.

The CoffeeScript code seems reasonable to me, give...

2012-01-11T11:21:33.123-08:00

The CoffeeScript code seems reasonable to me, given your constraints. Obviously, it would be pretty easy in CoffeeScript to encapsulate the pattern, so you'd never have to write it again. Also, allow me to emphasize that your approach is only necessary for large files; for smaller files, you can do "readFileSync(fn).toString().split '\n'".

There's a good Quora question on exactly this:...

2012-01-11T11:14:35.939-08:00

There's a good Quora question on exactly this: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-read-a-file-line-by-line-in-node-js

Groovy has many more high-level constructs baked in than Node does. But Node has an astonishing number of high-quality libraries for such a young ecosystem, and several of them can do what you want quite easily.

Vert.x has a Pump class for this, which may be of ...

2012-01-10T01:38:17.193-08:00

Vert.x has a Pump class for this, which may be of interest: https://github.com/purplefox/vert.x/blob/master/src/tests/java/org/vertx/tests/core/streams/PumpTest.java