Re: Read a text file
Re: Read a text file
- Subject: Re: Read a text file
- From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:40:13 -0500
On Jul 29, 2014, at 14:25, Gil Dawson <email@hidden> wrote:
I have a sort of generic way of processing a plain text file line-by-line...
... However, I'm running into problems:
1. Sometimes, the EOL delimiter is not return, but LF or CR/LF.
2. Sometimes, the encoding can be UTF-8, sometimes UTF-8 with BOM, sometimes UTF-16.
Is there a way for me to tell a priori what are the EOL delimiter and encoding for the file?
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Hey Gil,
I'm with Stan. Unless the file is massive I wouldn't read it line by line.
If I was dealing with different encodings I'd just use the Satimage.osax:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Get the file selected in the Finder for testing. tell application "Finder" set fSel to selection as alias list if fSel ≠ {} then set file_ to first item of fSel end if end tell
# readtext (verb)read a text file. readtext is aware of the presence of BOM. # (from the Satimage Text Additions suite, defined in Satimage.osax)
# ReadText: set data_ to paragraphs of (readtext file_)
# OR find text: set list_ to find text "^.+" in file_ with regexp, all occurrences and string result ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Since the SIO is Unicode-aware the process should be transparent.
-- Best Regards, Chris
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