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1.7 KiB
49 lines
1.7 KiB
7 years ago
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[](https://travis-ci.org/nacholibre/node-readlines)
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# node-readlines
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Reading file line by line may seem like a trivial problem, but in node, there is no straightforward way to do it. There are a lot of libraries using Transform Streams to achieve it, but it seems like a overkill, so I've wrote simple version using only the `filesystem` module of node. Note that this is *synchronous* library.
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Install with
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`npm install n-readlines`
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## Documentation
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### new readlines(filename, [options]);
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### new readlines(fd, [options]);
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**Arguments**
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* `filename` - String path to the file you want to read from
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* `fd` - File descriptor
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* `options` - Object
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* `readChunk` - Integer number of bytes to read at once. Default: 1024
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* `newLineCharacter` - String new line character, only works with one byte characters for now. Default: `\n` which is `0x0a` hex encoded
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`node-readlines` can handle files without newLineCharacter after the last line
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---------------------------------------
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### readlines.next()
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Returns `buffer` with the line data without the `newLineCharacter` or `false` if end of file is reached.
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### readlines.reset()
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Resets the pointer and starts from the beginning of the file. This works only if the end is not reached.
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## Example
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```javascript
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var lineByLine = require('n-readlines');
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var liner = new lineByLine('./textFile.txt');
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var line;
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var lineNumber = 0;
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while (line = liner.next()) {
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console.log('Line ' + lineNumber + ': ' + line.toString('ascii'));
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lineNumber++;
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}
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console.log('end of line reached');
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```
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