Read a file line by line
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Read a file one line at a time, as opposed to reading the entire file at once.
- See also
Ada
line_by_line.adb: <lang Ada>with Ada.Text_IO; procedure Line_By_Line is
Filename : String := "line_by_line.adb"; File : Ada.Text_IO.File_Type; Line_Count : Natural := 0;
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Open (File => File, Mode => Ada.Text_IO.In_File, Name => Filename); while not Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File (File) loop declare Line : String := Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (File); begin Line_Count := Line_Count + 1; Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Natural'Image (Line_Count) & ": " & Line); end; end loop; Ada.Text_IO.Close (File);
end Line_By_Line;</lang>
Output:
1: with Ada.Text_IO; 2: procedure Line_By_Line is 3: Filename : String := "line_by_line.adb"; 4: File : Ada.Text_IO.File_Type; 5: Line_Count : Natural := 0; 6: begin 7: Ada.Text_IO.Open (File => File, 8: Mode => Ada.Text_IO.In_File, 9: Name => Filename); 10: while not Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File (File) loop 11: declare 12: Line : String := Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (File); 13: begin 14: Line_Count := Line_Count + 1; 15: Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Natural'Image (Line_Count) & ": " & Line); 16: end; 17: end loop; 18: Ada.Text_IO.Close (File); 19: end Line_By_Line;
Aime
<lang aime>file f; text s;
f_affix(f, "src/aime.c");
while (f_line(f, s) != -1) {
o_text(s); o_byte('\n');
}</lang>
ALGOL 68
File: ./Read_a_file_line_by_line.a68<lang algol68>#!/usr/local/bin/a68g --script #
FILE foobar; INT errno = open(foobar, "Read_a_file_line_by_line.a68", stand in channel);
STRING line; FORMAT line fmt = $gl$;
PROC mount next tape = (REF FILE file)BOOL: (
print("Please mount next tape or q to quit"); IF read char = "q" THEN done ELSE TRUE FI
);
on physical file end(foobar, mount next tape); on logical file end(foobar, (REF FILE skip)BOOL: done);
FOR count DO
getf(foobar, (line fmt, line)); printf(($g(0)": "$, count, line fmt, line))
OD; done: SKIP</lang>Output:
1: #!/usr/local/bin/a68g --script # 2: 3: FILE foobar; 4: INT errno = open(foobar, "Read_a_file_line_by_line.a68", stand in channel); 5: 6: STRING line; 7: FORMAT line fmt = $gl$; 8: 9: PROC mount next tape = (REF FILE file)BOOL: ( 10: print("Please mount next tape or q to quit"); 11: IF read char = "q" THEN done ELSE TRUE FI 12: ); 13: 14: on physical file end(foobar, mount next tape); 15: on logical file end(foobar, (REF FILE skip)BOOL: done); 16: 17: FOR count DO 18: getf(foobar, (line fmt, line)); 19: printf(($g(0)": "$, count, line fmt, line)) 20: OD; 21: done: SKIP
AutoHotkey
<lang AutoHotkey>; --> Prompt the user to select the file being read
FileSelectFile, File, 1, %A_ScriptDir%, Select the (text) file to read, Documents (*.txt) ; Could of course be set to support other filetypes If Errorlevel ; If no file selected ExitApp
- --> Main loop
- Input (File), Output (Text)
Loop { FileReadLine, Line, %File%, %A_Index% ; Reads line N (where N is loop iteration) if Errorlevel ; If line does not exist, break loop break Text .= A_Index ". " Line . "`n" ; Appends the line to the variable "Text", adding line number before & new line after }
- --> Delivers the output as a text file
FileDelete, Output.txt ; Makes sure output is clear before writing FileAppend, %Text%, Output.txt ; Writes the result to Output.txt Run Output.txt ; Shows the created file</lang>
AWK
<lang AWK>awk '{ print $0 }' filename</lang>
BASIC
Locomotive Basic
<lang locobasic>10 OPENIN"foo.txt" 20 WHILE NOT EOF 30 LINE INPUT#9,i$ 40 PRINT i$ 50 WEND</lang>
ZX Spectrum Basic
The tape recorder interface does not support fragmented reads, because tape recorder start and stop is not atomic, (and a leadin is required for tape input). However, the microdrive does support fragmented reads. In the following example, we read a file line by line from a file on microdrive 1.
<lang basic>10 REM open my file for input 20 OPEN #4;"m";1;"MYFILE": REM stream 4 is the first available for general purpose 30 INPUT #4; LINE a$: REM a$ will hold our line from the file 40 REM because we do not know how many lines are in the file, we need an error trap 50 REM to gracefully exit when the file is read. (omitted from this example) 60 REM to prevent an error at end of file, place a handler here 100 GOTO 30</lang>
Batch File
<lang dos> @echo off for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in (file.txt) do echo %%i </lang>
BBC BASIC
This method is appropriate if the lines are terminated by a single CR or LF: <lang bbcbasic> file% = OPENIN("*.txt")
IF file%=0 ERROR 100, "File could not be opened" WHILE NOT EOF#file% a$ = GET$#file% ENDWHILE CLOSE #file%</lang>
This method is appropriate if the lines are terminated by a CRLF pair: <lang bbcbasic> file% = OPENIN("*.txt")
IF file%=0 ERROR 100, "File could not be opened" WHILE NOT EOF#file% INPUT #file%, a$ IF ASCa$=10 a$ = MID$(a$,2) ENDWHILE CLOSE #file%</lang>
Bracmat
fil
is a relatively low level Bracmat function for manipulating files. Depending on the parameters it opens, closes, reads, writes a file or reads or sets the file position.
<lang bracmat> fil$("test.txt",r) { r opens a text file, rb opens a binary file for reading }
& fil$(,STR,\n) { first argument empty: same as before (i.e. "test.txt") }
{ if \n were replaced by e.g. "\n\t " we would read word-wise instead }
& 0:?lineno & whl
' ( fil$:(?line.?sep) { "sep" contains found stop character, i.e. \n } & put$(line (1+!lineno:?lineno) ":" !line \n) )
& (fil$(,SET,-1)|); { Setting file position before start closes file, and fails.
Therefore the | }</lang>
Brat
<lang brat>include :file
file.each_line "foobar.txt" { line |
p line
}</lang>
C
This is not easy to do, because the C library is so primitive. There is fgets(), but this function limits the length of a line. fgets() also loses characters if there is a NUL character '\0' in the middle of a line.
The next example uses fgetln() and err() from BSD, but will not work with most other systems.
<lang c>#include <err.h> /* err */
- include <stdio.h> /* fopen, fgetln, fputs, fwrite */
/*
* Read a file line by line. * http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Read_a_file_line_by_line */
int main() { FILE *f; size_t len; char *line;
f = fopen("foobar.txt", "r"); if (f == NULL) err(1, "foobar.txt");
/* * This loop reads each line. * Remember that line is not a C string. * There is no terminating '\0'. */ while (line = fgetln(f, &len)) { /* * Do something with line. */ fputs("LINE: ", stdout); fwrite(line, len, 1, stdout); } if (!feof(f)) err(1, "fgetln");
return 0; }</lang>
For other systems, you can code something like fgetln(). The next example refactors the code from Synchronous concurrency#C that reads lines.
<lang c>#include <stdlib.h> /* exit, malloc, realloc, free */
- include <stdio.h> /* fopen, fgetc, fputs, fwrite */
struct line_reader { /* All members are private. */ FILE *f; char *buf; size_t siz; };
/*
* Initializes a line reader _lr_ for the stream _f_. */
void lr_init(struct line_reader *lr, FILE *f) { lr->f = f; lr->buf = NULL; lr->siz = 0; }
/*
* Reads the next line. If successful, returns a pointer to the line, * and sets *len to the number of characters, at least 1. The result is * _not_ a C string; it has no terminating '\0'. The returned pointer * remains valid until the next call to next_line() or lr_free() with * the same _lr_. * * next_line() returns NULL at end of file, or if there is an error (on * the stream, or with memory allocation). */
char * next_line(struct line_reader *lr, size_t *len) { size_t newsiz; int c; char *newbuf;
*len = 0; /* Start with empty line. */ for (;;) { c = fgetc(lr->f); /* Read next character. */ if (ferror(lr->f)) return NULL;
if (c == EOF) { /* * End of file is also end of last line, ` * unless this last line would be empty. */ if (*len == 0) return NULL; else return lr->buf; } else { /* Append c to the buffer. */ if (*len == lr->siz) { /* Need a bigger buffer! */ newsiz = lr->siz + 4096; newbuf = realloc(lr->buf, newsiz); if (newbuf == NULL) return NULL; lr->buf = newbuf; lr->siz = newsiz; } lr->buf[(*len)++] = c;
/* '\n' is end of line. */ if (c == '\n') return lr->buf; } } }
/*
* Frees internal memory used by _lr_. */
void lr_free(struct line_reader *lr) { free(lr->buf); lr->buf = NULL; lr->siz = 0; }
/*
* Read a file line by line. * http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Read_a_file_line_by_line */
int main() { struct line_reader lr; FILE *f; size_t len; char *line;
f = fopen("foobar.txt", "r"); if (f == NULL) { perror("foobar.txt"); exit(1); }
/* * This loop reads each line. * Remember that line is not a C string. * There is no terminating '\0'. */ lr_init(&lr, f); while (line = next_line(&lr, &len)) { /* * Do something with line. */ fputs("LINE: ", stdout); fwrite(line, len, 1, stdout); } if (!feof(f)) { perror("next_line"); exit(1); } lr_free(&lr);
return 0; }</lang>
Using mmap()
Implementation using mmap syscall. Works on Linux 2.6.* and on *BSDs. Line reading routine takes a callback function, each line is passed into callback as begin and end pointer. Let OS handle your memory pages, we don't need no stinking mallocs. <lang C>#include <stdio.h>
- include <sys/types.h>
- include <sys/stat.h>
- include <fcntl.h>
- include <unistd.h>
- include <sys/mman.h>
- include <errno.h>
- include <err.h>
int read_lines(const char * fname, int (*call_back)(const char*, const char*)) {
int fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY); struct stat fs; char *buf, *buf_end; char *begin, *end, c;
if (fd == -1) { err(1, "open: %s", fname); return 0; }
if (fstat(fd, &fs) == -1) { err(1, "stat: %s", fname); return 0; }
/* fs.st_size could have been 0 actually */ buf = mmap(0, fs.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); if (buf == (void*) -1) { err(1, "mmap: %s", fname); close(fd); return 0; }
buf_end = buf + fs.st_size;
begin = end = buf; while (1) { if (! (*end == '\r' || *end == '\n')) { if (++end < buf_end) continue; } else if (1 + end < buf_end) { /* see if we got "\r\n" or "\n\r" here */ c = *(1 + end); if ( (c == '\r' || c == '\n') && c != *end) ++end; }
/* call the call back and check error indication. Announce error here, because we didn't tell call_back the file name */ if (! call_back(begin, end)) { err(1, "[callback] %s", fname); break; }
if ((begin = ++end) >= buf_end) break; }
munmap(buf, fs.st_size); close(fd); return 1;
}
int print_line(const char* begin, const char* end) {
if (write(fileno(stdout), begin, end - begin + 1) == -1) { return 0; } return 1;
}
int main() {
return read_lines("test.ps", print_line) ? 0 : 1;
} </lang>
C++
<lang cpp>#include <fstream>
- include <string>
- include <iostream>
int main( int argc , char** argv ) {
int linecount = 0 ; std::string line ; std::ifstream infile( argv[ 1 ] ) ; if ( infile ) { while ( getline( infile , line ) ) {
std::cout << linecount << ": " << line << '\n' ;//supposing '\n' to be line end linecount++ ;
} } infile.close( ) ; return 0 ;
}</lang>
<lang cpp>#include <Core/Core.h>
using namespace Upp;
CONSOLE_APP_MAIN { FileIn in(CommandLine()[0]); while(in && !in.IsEof()) Cout().PutLine(in.GetLine()); }</lang>
C#
'File.ReadLines' reads the lines of a file which could easily be stepped through. <lang csharp>foreach (string readLine in File.ReadLines("FileName")
DoSomething(readLine);</lang>
A full code may look like; <lang csharp>using System; using System.IO; using System.Text;
namespace RosettaCode {
internal class Program { private static void Main() { var sb = new StringBuilder(); string F = "File.txt";
// Read a file, line by line. try { foreach (string readLine in File.ReadLines(F)) { // Use the data in some way... sb.Append(readLine); sb.Append("\n"); } } catch (Exception exception) { Console.WriteLine(exception.Message); Environment.Exit(1); }
// Preset the results Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString()); } }
}</lang>
Clojure
<lang Clojure> (with-open [r (clojure.java.io/reader "some-file.txt")]
(doseq [l (line-seq r)] (println l)))
</lang>
COBOL
<lang cobol> IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. read-file-line-by-line.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL. SELECT input-file ASSIGN TO "input.txt" ORGANIZATION LINE SEQUENTIAL FILE STATUS input-file-status.
DATA DIVISION. FILE SECTION. FD input-file. 01 input-record PIC X(256).
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 input-file-status PIC 99. 88 file-is-ok VALUE 0. 88 end-of-file VALUE 10.
01 line-count PIC 9(6).
PROCEDURE DIVISION. OPEN INPUT input-file IF NOT file-is-ok DISPLAY "The file could not be opened." GOBACK END-IF
PERFORM VARYING line-count FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL end-of-file READ input-file DISPLAY line-count ": " FUNCTION TRIM(input-record) END-PERFORM
CLOSE input-file
GOBACK .</lang>
CoffeeScript
<lang coffeescript>
- This module shows two ways to read a file line-by-line in node.js.
fs = require 'fs'
- First, let's keep things simple, and do things synchronously. This
- approach is well-suited for simple scripts.
do ->
fn = "read_file.coffee" for line in fs.readFileSync(fn).toString().split '\n' console.log line console.log "DONE SYNC!"
- Now let's complicate things.
- Use the following code when files are large, and memory is
- constrained and/or where you want a large amount of concurrency.
- Protocol:
- Call LineByLineReader, which calls back to you with a reader.
- The reader has two methods.
- next_line: call to this when you want a new line
- close: call this when you are done using the file before
- it has been read completely
- When you call next_line, you must supply two callbacks:
- line_cb: called back when there is a line of text
- done_cb: called back when there is no more text in the file
LineByLineReader = (fn, cb) ->
fs.open fn, 'r', (err, fd) -> bufsize = 256 pos = 0 text = eof = false closed = false reader = next_line: (line_cb, done_cb) -> if eof if text last_line = text text = line_cb last_line else done_cb() return new_line_index = text.indexOf '\n' if new_line_index >= 0 line = text.substr 0, new_line_index text = text.substr new_line_index + 1, text.length - new_line_index - 1 line_cb line else frag = new Buffer(bufsize) fs.read fd, frag, 0, bufsize, pos, (err, bytesRead) -> s = frag.toString('utf8', 0, bytesRead) text += s pos += bytesRead if (bytesRead) reader.next_line line_cb, done_cb else eof = true fs.closeSync(fd) closed = true reader.next_line line_cb, done_cb close: -> # The reader should call this if they abandon mid-file. fs.closeSync(fd) unless closed cb reader
- Test our interface here.
do ->
console.log '---' fn = 'read_file.coffee' LineByLineReader fn, (reader) -> callbacks = process_line: (line) -> console.log line reader.next_line callbacks.process_line, callbacks.all_done all_done: -> console.log "DONE ASYNC!" reader.next_line callbacks.process_line, callbacks.all_done
</lang>
Common Lisp
<lang lisp>(with-open-file (input "file.txt")
(loop for line = (read-line input nil) while line do (format t "~a~%" line)))</lang>
D
<lang d>import std.stdio;
void main() {
foreach (line; File("unixdict.txt").byLine()) writeln(line);
}</lang> The File is managed by reference count, and it gets closed when it gets out of scope or it changes. The 'line' is a char[] (with newline), so if you need a string you have to idup it.
Delphi
<lang Delphi>
procedure ReadFileByLine; var TextFile: text; TextLine: String; begin Assign(TextFile, 'c:\test.txt'); Reset(TextFile); while not Eof(TextFile) do Readln(TextFile, TextLine); CloseFile(TextFile); end;
</lang> The example file (above) "c:\test.txt" is assigned to the text file variable "TextFile" is opened and any line is read in a loop into the string variable "TextLine".
<lang Delphi> procedure ReadFileByLine;
var TextLines : TStringList; i : Integer; begin TextLines := TStringList.Create; TextLines.LoadFromFile('c:\text.txt'); for i := 0 to TextLines.count -1 do ShowMessage(TextLines[i]); end;
</lang>
Above uses the powerful utility classs type TStringList from Classes Unit
See also GNU LGPL (Delphi replacement) Lazarus IDE FreePascal and specifically Lazarus FreePascal Equivalent for TStringList
Erlang
read_a_file_line_by_line:into_list/1 is used by Read_a_specific_line_from_a_file. If this task is updated keep backwards compatibility, or change Read_a_specific_line_from_a_file, too. <lang erlang> -module( read_a_file_line_by_line ).
-export( [into_list/1] ).
into_list( File ) ->
{ok, IO} = file:open( File, [read] ), into_list( io:get_line(IO, ), IO, [] ).
into_list( eof, _IO, Acc ) -> lists:reverse( Acc );
into_list( {error, _Error}, _IO, Acc ) -> lists:reverse( Acc );
into_list( Line, IO, Acc ) -> into_list( io:get_line(IO, ), IO, [Line | Acc] ).
</lang>
- Output:
6> read_a_file_line_by_line:into_list("read_a_file_line_by_line.erl"). ["-module( read_a_file_line_by_line ).\n","\n", "-export( [into_list/1] ).\n","\n","into_list( File ) ->\n", "\t{ok, IO} = file:open( File, [read] ),\n", "\tinto_list( io:get_line(IO, ''), IO, [] ).\n","\n","\n", "into_list( eof, _IO, Acc ) -> lists:reverse( Acc );\n", "into_list( {error, _Error}, _IO, Acc ) -> lists:reverse( Acc );\n", "into_list( Line, IO, Acc ) -> into_list( io:get_line(IO, ''), IO, [Line | Acc] ).\n"]
Euphoria
<lang euphoria>constant cmd = command_line() constant filename = cmd[2] constant fn = open(filename,"r") integer i i = 1 object x while 1 do
x = gets(fn) if atom(x) then exit end if printf(1,"%2d: %s",{i,x}) i += 1
end while close(fn)</lang>
Output:
1: constant cmd = command_line() 2: constant filename = cmd[2] 3: constant fn = open(filename,"r") 4: integer i 5: i = 1 6: object x 7: while 1 do 8: x = gets(fn) 9: if atom(x) then 10: exit 11: end if 12: printf(1,"%2d: %s",{i,x}) 13: i += 1 14: end while 15: close(fn)
F#
Using DotNet's System.IO.File.ReadLines iterator: <lang fsharp>open System.IO
[<EntryPoint>] let main argv =
File.ReadLines(argv.[0]) |> Seq.iter (printfn "%s") 0</lang>
Factor
<lang factor> "path/to/file" utf8 [ [ readln dup [ print ] when* ] loop ] with-file-reader</lang>
Fantom
Reads each line from the file "data.txt".
<lang fantom> class Main {
Void main () { File (`data.txt`).eachLine |Str line| { echo ("Line: $line") } }
} </lang>
Forth
<lang forth>4096 constant max-line
- third ( A b c -- A b c A )
>r over r> swap ;
- read-lines ( fileid -- )
begin pad max-line third read-line throw while pad swap ( fileid c-addr u ) \ string excludes the newline 2drop repeat 2drop ;</lang>
Frink
The lines function can also take an optional second string argument indicating the encoding of the file, and can read from any supported URL type (HTTP, FTP, etc.) <lang frink> for line = lines["file:yourfile.txt"]
println[line]
</lang>
GAP
<lang gap>ReadByLines := function(name) local file, line, count; file := InputTextFile(name); count := 0; while true do line := ReadLine(file); if line = fail then break; fi; count := count + 1; od; CloseStream(file); return count; end;
- With amnesty.txt
ReadByLines("amnesty.txt");
- 384</lang>
Go
- bufio.Scanner
The bufio package provides Scanner, a convenient interface for reading data such as a file of newline-delimited lines of text. Successive calls to the Scan method will step through the 'tokens' of a file, skipping the bytes between the tokens. The specification of a token is defined by a split function of type SplitFunc; the default split function breaks the input into lines with line termination stripped. Split functions are defined in this package for scanning a file into lines, bytes, UTF-8-encoded runes, and space-delimited words. The client may instead provide a custom split function.
Scanning stops unrecoverably at EOF, the first I/O error, or a token too large to fit in the buffer. When a scan stops, the reader may have advanced arbitrarily far past the last token. Programs that need more control over error handling or large tokens, or must run sequential scans on a reader, should use bufio.Reader instead.
<lang go>package main
import ( "bufio" "fmt" "log" "os" )
func init() { log.SetFlags(log.Lshortfile) }
func main() { // Open an input file, exit on error. inputFile, err := os.Open("byline.go") if err != nil { log.Fatal("Error opening input file:", err) }
// Closes the file when we leave the scope of the current function, // this makes sure we never forget to close the file if the // function can exit in multiple places. defer inputFile.Close()
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(inputFile)
// scanner.Scan() advances to the next token returning false if an error was encountered for scanner.Scan() { fmt.Println(scanner.Text()) }
// When finished scanning if any error other than io.EOF occured // it will be returned by scanner.Err(). if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil { log.Fatal(scanner.Err()) } } </lang>
- ReadLine
This function allows files to be rapidly scanned for desired data while minimizing memory allocations. It also handles /r/n line endings and allows unreasonably long lines to be handled as error conditions. <lang go>package main
import (
"bufio" "fmt" "io" "log" "os"
)
func main() {
f, err := os.Open("file") // os.OpenFile has more options if you need them if err != nil { // error checking is good practice // error *handling* is good practice. log.Fatal sends the error // message to stderr and exits with a non-zero code. log.Fatal(err) }
// os.File has no special buffering, it makes straight operating system // requests. bufio.Reader does buffering and has several useful methods. bf := bufio.NewReader(f)
// there are a few possible loop termination // conditions, so just start with an infinite loop. for { // reader.ReadLine does a buffered read up to a line terminator, // handles either /n or /r/n, and returns just the line without // the /r or /r/n. line, isPrefix, err := bf.ReadLine()
// loop termination condition 1: EOF. // this is the normal loop termination condition. if err == io.EOF { break }
// loop termination condition 2: some other error. // Errors happen, so check for them and do something with them. if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
// loop termination condition 3: line too long to fit in buffer // without multiple reads. Bufio's default buffer size is 4K. // Chances are if you haven't seen a line terminator after 4k // you're either reading the wrong file or the file is corrupt. if isPrefix { log.Fatal("Error: Unexpected long line reading", f.Name()) }
// success. The variable line is now a byte slice based on on // bufio's underlying buffer. This is the minimal churn necessary // to let you look at it, but note! the data may be overwritten or // otherwise invalidated on the next read. Look at it and decide // if you want to keep it. If so, copy it or copy the portions // you want before iterating in this loop. Also note, it is a byte // slice. Often you will want to work on the data as a string, // and the string type conversion (shown here) allocates a copy of // the data. It would be safe to send, store, reference, or otherwise // hold on to this string, then continue iterating in this loop. fmt.Println(string(line)) }
}</lang>
- ReadString
In comparison, ReadString is a little quick and dirty, but is often good enough. <lang go>package main
import (
"bufio" "fmt" "io" "log" "os"
)
func main() {
f, err := os.Open("file") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } bf := bufio.NewReader(f) for { switch line, err := bf.ReadString('\n'); err { case nil: // valid line, echo it. note that line contains trailing \n. fmt.Print(line) case io.EOF: if line > "" { // last line of file missing \n, but still valid fmt.Println(line) } return default: log.Fatal(err) } }
}</lang>
Groovy
<lang groovy>new File("Test.txt").eachLine { line, lineNumber ->
println "processing line $lineNumber: $line"
}</lang>
Haskell
Thanks to laziness, there's no difference between reading the file all at once and reading it line by line.
<lang Haskell>main = do
file <- readFile "linebyline.hs" mapM_ putStrLn (lines file)
</lang>
Icon and Unicon
Line oriented I/O is basic. This program reads lines from "input.txt" into the variable line, but does nothing with it.
<lang Icon>procedure main() f := open("input.txt","r") | stop("cannot open file ",fn) while line := read(f) close(f) end</lang>
J
J currently discourages this "read just one line" approach. In addition to the arbitrary character of lines, there are issues of problem size and scope (what happens when you have a billion characters between your newline delimiters?). Usually, it's easier to just read the entire file, or memory map the file, and when files are so large that that is not practical it's probably better to put the programmer in explicit control of issues like block sizes and exception handling.
This implementation looks for lines separated by ascii character 10. Lines returned here do not include the line separator character. Files with no line-separating character at the end are treated as well formed -- if the last character of the file is the line separator that means that you have an empty line at the end of the file.
This implementation does nothing special when dealing with multi-gigabyte lines. If you encounter an excessively large line and if do not have enough physical memory, your system will experience heavy memory pressure. If you also do not have enough virtual memory to hold a line you will get an out of memory exception.
<lang j>cocurrent 'linereader'
NB. configuration parameter blocksize=: 400000
NB. implementation offset=: 0 position=: 0 buffer=: lines=:
create=: monad define name=: boxxopen y size=: 1!:4 name blocks=: 2 <@(-~/\)\ ~. size <. blocksize * i. 1 + >. size % blocksize )
readblocks=: monad define if. 0=#blocks do. return. end. if. 1<#lines do. return. end. whilst. -.LF e.chars do. buffer=: buffer,chars=. 1!:11 name,{.blocks blocks=: }.blocks lines=: <;._2 buffer,LF end. buffer=: _1{::lines )
next=: monad define if. (#blocks)*.2>#lines do. readblocks end. r=. 0{::lines lines=: }.lines r )</lang>
<lang j> example=: '/tmp/example.txt' conew 'linereader'
next__example
this is line 1
next__example
and this is line 2</lang>
Java
<lang java>import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileReader;
/**
* Reads a file line by line, processing each line. * * @author $Author$ * @version $Revision$ */
public class ReadFileByLines {
private static void processLine(int lineNo, String line) { // ... }
public static void main(String[] args) { for (String filename : args) { BufferedReader br = null; FileReader fr = null; try { fr = new FileReader(filename); br = new BufferedReader(fr); String line; int lineNo = 0; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { processLine(++lineNo, line); } } catch (Exception x) { x.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (fr != null) { try {br.close();} catch (Exception ignoreMe) {} try {fr.close();} catch (Exception ignoreMe) {} } } } }
}</lang>
In Java 7, the try with resources block handles multiple readers and writers without nested try blocks. The loop in the main method would look like this: <lang java5>for (String filename : args) {
try (FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename);BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr)){ String line; int lineNo = 0; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { processLine(++lineNo, line); } } catch (Exception x) { x.printStackTrace(); }
}</lang>
fr
and br
are automatically closed when the program exits the try block (it also checks for nulls before closing and throws closing exceptions out of the block).
A more under-the-hood method in Java 7 would be to use the Files
class (line numbers can be inferred from indices in the returned List
):
<lang java5>import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.io.IOException;
//...other class code
List<String> lines = null;
try{
lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(filename), Charset.defaultCharset());
}catch(IOException | SecurityException e){
//problem with the file
}</lang>
Julia
<lang julia>open("input_file","w") do f
for line in each_line(f) #line operations end
end</lang>
Lasso
<lang Lasso>local(f) = file('foo.txt') handle => {#f->close}
- f->forEachLine => {^
#1 '
' // note this simply inserts an HTML line break between each line.
^}</lang>
Liberty BASIC
<lang lb>filedialog "Open","*.txt",file$ if file$="" then end open file$ for input as #f while not(eof(#f))
line input #f, t$ print t$
wend close #f</lang> Mac <lang lb>filedialog "Open","*.txt",file$ if file$="" then end open file$ for input as #f while not(eof(#f))
t$ = inputto$(#f, chr$(13)) print t$
wend close #f </lang> Unix <lang lb>filedialog "Open","*.txt",file$ if file$="" then end open file$ for input as #f while not(eof(#f))
t$ = inputto$(#f, chr$(10)) print t$
wend close #f </lang>
Logo
There are several words which will return a line of input.
- readline - returns a line as a list of words
- readword - returns a line as a single word, or an empty list if it reached the end of file
- readrawline - returns a line as a single word, with no characters escaped
<lang logo>while [not eof?] [print readline]</lang>
Lua
<lang lua>filename = "input.txt" fp = io.open( filename, "r" )
for line in fp:lines() do
print( line )
end
fp:close() </lang>
Mathematica
<lang Mathematica> strm=OpenRead["input.txt"]; If[strm=!=$Failed,
While[line=!=EndOfFile, line=Read[strm]; (*Do something*) ]];
Close[strm]; </lang>
MATLAB / Octave
The function fgetl() read lines from file:
<lang Matlab>
fid = fopen('foobar.txt','r'); if (fid < 0)
printf('Error:could not open file\n')
else
while ~feof(fid), line = fgetl(fid);
%% process line %%
end;
fclose(fid) end; </lang>
Maxima
<lang maxima>/* Read a file and return a list of all lines */
readfile(name) := block(
[v: [ ], f: openr(name), line], while stringp(line: readline(f)) do v: endcons(line, v), close(f), v
)$</lang>
NetRexx
Using Java Scanner
<lang NetRexx>/* NetRexx */ options replace format comments java crossref symbols nobinary
parse arg inFileName .
if inFileName = | inFileName = '.' then inFileName = './data/dwarfs.json' lines = scanFile(inFileName) loop l_ = 1 to lines[0]
say l_.right(4)':' lines[l_] end l_
return
-- Read a file and return contents as a Rexx indexed string method scanFile(inFileName) public static returns Rexx
fileLines = do inFile = File(inFileName) inFileScanner = Scanner(inFile) loop l_ = 1 while inFileScanner.hasNext() fileLines[0] = l_ fileLines[l_] = inFileScanner.nextLine() end l_ inFileScanner.close()
catch ex = FileNotFoundException ex.printStackTrace end
return fileLines
</lang>
Using Java Reader
<lang NetRexx>/* NetRexx */ options replace format comments java crossref symbols nobinary
parse arg inFileName .
if inFileName = | inFileName = '.' then inFileName = './data/dwarfs.json' lines = readFile(inFileName) loop l_ = 1 to lines[0]
say l_.right(4)':' lines[l_] end l_
return
-- Read a file and return contents as a Rexx indexed string method readFile(inFileName) public static returns Rexx
fileLines = inLine = String null inFileBR = BufferedReader null
do inFile = File(inFileName) inFileBR = BufferedReader(FileReader(inFile)) loop l_ = 1 until inline = null inLine = inFileBR.readLine() if inline \= null then do fileLines[0] = l_ fileLines[l_] = inLine end end l_
catch exFNF = FileNotFoundException exFNF.printStackTrace catch exIO = IOException exIO.printStackTrace finally if inFileBR \= null then do do inFileBR.close() catch ex = IOException ex.printStackTrace end end end
return fileLines
</lang>
NewLISP
<lang NewLISP> (set 'in-file (open "filename" "read")) (while (read-line in-file)
(write-line))
(close in-file)</lang>
Objeck
<lang objeck> bundle Default {
class ReadFile { function : Main(args : String[]) ~ Nil { f := IO.FileReader->New("in.txt"); if(f->IsOpen()) { string := f->ReadString(); while(f->IsEOF() = false) { string->PrintLine(); string := f->ReadString(); }; f->Close(); }; } }
} </lang>
Objective-C
To read an entire file into a string, you can: <lang objc>NSString *path = [NSString stringWithString:@"/usr/share/dict/words"]; NSError *error = nil; NSString *words = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
</lang>
Use the UTF-8 encoder on ASCII.
Now to get the individual lines, break down the string:
<lang objc>NSArray* lines = [words componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet]];</lang>
OCaml
<lang ocaml>let () =
let ic = open_in "input.txt" in try while true do let line = input_line ic in print_endline line done with End_of_file -> close_in ic</lang>
But if we want to write a functional loading function we should remember that the try/with
couple breaks the tail recursion. So we should externalise it outside of the loop in another function:
<lang ocaml>let input_line_opt ic =
try Some (input_line ic) with End_of_file -> None
let read_lines ic =
let rec aux acc = match input_line_opt ic with | Some line -> aux (line::acc) | None -> (List.rev acc) in aux []
let lines_of_file filename =
let ic = open_in filename in let lines = read_lines ic in close_in ic; (lines)</lang>
we use it like this:
<lang ocaml>let () =
let lines = lines_of_file "unixdict.txt" in List.iter print_endline lines</lang>
OxygenBasic
The core function GetFile reads the whole file: <lang oxygenbasic> function getline(string s, sys *i, *el) as string
sys e e=instr i,s,chr(el) if e=0 then el=10 e=instr i,s,chr(el) 'files not using chr 13 end if if e=0 then e=len s e++ if el=13 then if asc(s,e)=10 then e++ 'crlf end if function = mid s,i,e-i i=e
end function
'===== 'TEST: '=====
s=getfile "t.txt" i=1 wr="" c=0 el=13 do
wr = getline s,i,el if wr="" then exit do 'print wr c++
end do print "Line count " c </lang>
PARI/GP
GP has an unfortunate limitations that prevents reading files line-by-line, but it's just as well since its file-handling capabilities are poor. The TODO file lists one desiderata as adding a t_FILE
, which if added would presumably have support for this sort of operation.
Thus the usual way of interacting with files in more than the simple way allowed by read
is done by PARI with the usual C commands:
<lang C>FILE *f = fopen(name, "r");
if (!f) {
pari_err(openfiler, "input", name);
}
while(fgets(line, MAX_LINELEN, f) != NULL) {
// ...
}</lang>
Pascal
See Delphi
Perl
For the simple case of iterating over the lines of a file you can do: <lang perl>open(FOO, '<', 'foobar.txt') or die $!; while (<FOO>) { # each line is stored in $_, with terminating newline
chomp; # chomp, short for chomp($_), removes the terminating newline process($_);
}
close(FOO);</lang>
The angle bracket operator < >
reads a filehandle line by line. (The angle bracket operator can also be used to open and read from files that match a specific pattern, by putting the pattern in the brackets.)
Without specifying the variable that each line should be put into, it automatically puts it into $_
, which is also conveniently the default argument for many Perl functions. If you wanted to use your own variable, you can do something like this:
<lang perl>open(FOO, '<', 'foobar.txt') or die $!;
while (my $line = <FOO>) {
chomp($line); process($line);
} close(FOO);</lang>
The special use of the angle bracket operator with nothing inside, will read from all files whose names were specified on the command line: <lang perl>while (<>) {
chomp; process($_);
}</lang>
Perl 6
The lines method is lazy so the following code does indeed read the file line by line, and not all at once. <lang Perl 6>for open('test.txt').lines {
.say
}</lang>
In order to be more explicit about the file being read on line at a time, one can write: <lang Perl 6>my $f = open 'test.txt'; while my $line = $f.get {
say $line;
}</lang>
PicoLisp
<lang PicoLisp>(in "foobar.txt"
(while (line) (process @) ) )</lang>
PHP
<lang php><?php $file = fopen(__FILE__, 'r'); // read current file while ($line = fgets($file)) {
$line = rtrim($line); // removes linebreaks and spaces at end echo strrev($line) . "\n"; // reverse line and upload it
}</lang>
<lang php><?php // HOW TO ECHO FILE LINE BY LINE FROM THE COMMAND LINE: php5-cli $file = fopen('test.txt', 'r'); // OPEN FILE WITH READ ACCESS while (!feof($file)) {
$line = rtrim(fgets($file)); // REMOVE TRAILING WHITESPACE AND GET LINE if($line != NULL) echo("$line\n"); // IF THE LINE ISN'T NULL, ECHO THE LINE
}</lang>
PL/I
<lang pli> read: procedure options (main);
declare line character (500) varying;
on endfile (sysin) stop;
do forever; get edit (line)(L); end;
end read; </lang>
PureBasic
<lang PureBasic>FileName$ = OpenFileRequester("","foo.txt","*.txt",0)
If OpenFile(0, FileName$)
While Not Eof(0) line$ = ReadString(0) DoSomethingWithTheLine(Line) Wend CloseFile(0)
EndIf</lang>
Python
For the simple case of iterating over the lines of a file you can do: <lang python>with open("foobar.txt") as f:
for line in f: process(line)</lang>
The with statement ensures the correct closing of the file after it is processed, and iterating over the file object f
, adjusts what is considered line separator character(s) so the code will work on multiple operating systems such as Windows, Mac, and Solaris without change.
Any exceptional conditions seen when processing the file will raise an exception. Leaving the while loop because of an exception will also cause the file to be correctly closed on the way.
Python also has the fileinput module. This can process multiple files parsed from the command line and can be set to modify files 'in-place'. <lang python>import fileinput for line in fileinput.input():
process(line)
</lang>
R
<lang R>conn <- file("notes.txt", "r") while(length(line <- readLines(conn, 1)) > 0) {
cat(line, "\n")
}</lang>
Racket
<lang racket>(define (read-next-line-iter file) (let ((line (read-line file))) (unless (eof-object? line) (display line) (newline) (read-next-line-iter file)))) (call-with-input-file "foobar.txt" read-next-line-iter)</lang>
REXX
<lang REXX> /*REXX program to read and display (with count) a file, one line at a time.*/
parse arg fileID . say 'Displaying file:' fileID
do linenumber=1 by 1 while lines(fileID)>0 /* loop construct */
line=linein(fileID) /* read line */ say 'Line' linenumber':' line /* show line number and line */ end linenumber /* end loop and confirm which loop */
say say 'File' fileID 'has' linenumber-1 'lines.' /*summary.*/
/* Or: the 'known name' short version: */ file='foobar.txt' do while lines(file)>0; say linein(file); end
</lang>
Ruby
<lang ruby>IO.foreach "foobar.txt" do |line|
# Do something with line. puts line
end</lang>
<lang ruby># File inherits from IO, so File.foreach also works. File.foreach("foobar.txt") {|line| puts line}</lang>
<lang ruby># IO.foreach and File.foreach can also read a subprocess. IO.foreach "| grep afs3 /etc/services" do |line|
puts line
end</lang>
Caution! IO.foreach and File.foreach take a portname. To open an arbitrary filename (which might start with "|"), you must use File.open, then IO#each (or IO#each_line). The block form of File.open automatically closes the file after running the block.
<lang ruby>filename = "|strange-name.txt" File.open(filename) do |file|
file.each {|line| puts line}
end</lang>
Run BASIC
<lang runbasic>open DefaultDir$ + "\public\filetest.txt" for input as #f while not(eof(#f))
line input #f, a$ print a$
wend close #f </lang>
Scala
<lang scala>import scala.io._ Source.fromFile("foobar.txt").getLines.foreach(println)</lang>
Scheme
<lang scheme>; Commented line below should be uncommented to use read-line with Guile
- (use-modules (ice-9 rdelim))
(define file (open-input-file "input.txt")) (do ((line (read-line file) (read-line file))) ((eof-object? line))
(display line) (newline))</lang>
Sed
Through a .sed file: <lang sed>#!/bin/sed -f p </lang>
or through a one-liner in bash: <lang bash> sed p filename </lang>
Seed7
<lang seed7>$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
const proc: main is func
local var file: aFile is STD_NULL; var string: line is ""; begin aFile := open("input.txt", "r"); while hasNext(aFile) do readln(aFile, line); writeln("LINE: " <& line); end while; end func;</lang>
The function hasNext returns TRUE when at least one character can be read successfully.
Smalltalk
<lang smalltalk>'foobar.txt' asFilename readingLinesDo:[:eachLine | eachLine printCR]</lang> alternatively: <lang smalltalk>|s| s := 'foobar.txt' asFilename readStream. [ s atEnd ] whileFalse:[
s nextLine printCR.
]. s close</lang> alternatively: <lang smalltalk>'foobar.txt' asFilename contents do:[:eachLine | eachLine printCR].</lang>
SNOBOL4
In SNOBOL4, file I/O is done by associating a file with a variable. Every subsequent access to the variable provides the next record of the file. Options to the input() function allow the file to be opened in line mode, fixed-blocksize (raw binary) mode, and with various sharing options. The input() operation generally fails (in most modern implementations) if the file requested is not found (in earlier implementations, that failure is reported the same way as end-of-file when the first actual read from the file is attempted). You can specify the file unit number to use (a vestigial remnant of the Fortran I/O package used by original Bell Labs SNOBOL4 implementations... in this case, I'll use file unit 20). Accessing the variable fails (does not succeed) when the end of file is reached.
<lang snobol4> input(.infile,20,"readfrom.txt") :f(end) rdloop output = infile :s(rdloop) end</lang>
Tcl
<lang tcl>set f [open "foobar.txt"] while {[gets $f line] >= 0} {
# This loops over every line puts ">>$line<<"
} close $f</lang>
TorqueScript
Read a file line by line:
<lang TorqueScript> //Create a file object
%f = new fileObject();
//Open and read a file
%f.openForRead("PATH/PATH.txt");
while(!%f.isEOF()) { //Read each line from our file
%line = %f.readLine(); }
//Close the file object
%f.close();
//Delete the file object
%f.delete(); </lang>
TUSCRIPT
<lang tuscript> $$ MODE TUSCRIPT
datei="rosetta.txt" ERROR/STOP OPEN (datei,READ,-std-)
ACCESS q: READ/RECORDS/UTF8 $datei s,line
LOOP READ/NEXT/EXIT q PRINT line ENDLOOP
ENDACCESS q </lang> or: <lang tuscript> LOOP line=datei
PRINT line
ENDLOOP </lang>
UNIX Shell
Redirect standard input from a file, and then use IFS= read -r line
to read each line.
- mksh(1) manual says, "If
read
is run in a loop such aswhile read foo; do ...; done
then leading whitespace will be removed (IFS) and backslashes processed. You might want to usewhile IFS= read -r foo; do ...; done
for pristine I/O."
<lang bash># This while loop repeats for each line of the file.
- This loop is inside a pipeline; many shells will
- run this loop inside a subshell.
cat input.txt | while IFS= read -r line ; do
printf '%s\n' "$line"
done</lang>
<lang bash># This loop runs in the current shell, and can read both
- the old standard input (fd 1) and input.txt (fd 3).
exec 3<input.txt while IFS= read -r line <&3 ; do
printf '%s\n' "$line"
done exec 3>&-</lang>
<lang bash># The old Bourne Shell interprets 'IFS= read' as 'IFS= ; read'.
- It requires extra code to restore the original value of IFS.
exec 3<input.txt oldifs=$IFS while IFS= ; read -r line <&3 ; do
IFS=$oldifs printf '%s\n' "$line"
done IFS=$oldifs exec 3>&-</lang>
Vala
Reads and prints out file line by line: <lang vala> public static void main(){ var file = FileStream.open("foo.txt", "r");
string line = file.read_line(); while (line != null){ stdout.printf("%s\n", line); line = file.read_line(); } } </lang>
Vedit macro language
On Vedit, you do not actually read file line by line. File reading and writing is handled by automatic file buffering while you process the file.
This example reads the source code of this macro, copies it line by line into a new buffer and adds line numbers. <lang vedit>File_Open("line_by_line.vdm")
- 10 = Buf_Num // edit buffer for input file
- 11 = Buf_Free // edit buffer for output
- 1 = 1 // line number
while (!At_EOF) {
Reg_Copy(20,1) // read one line into text register 20 Buf_Switch(#11) // switch to output file Num_Ins(#1++, NOCR) // write line number Ins_Text(" ") Reg_Ins(20) // write the line Buf_Switch(#10) // switch to input file Line(1) // next line
} Buf_Close(NOMSG) // close the input file Buf_Switch(#11) // show the output </lang>
Output:
1 File_Open("line_by_line.vdm") 2 #10 = Buf_Num // edit buffer for input file 3 #11 = Buf_Free // edit buffer for output 4 #1 = 1 // line number 5 while (!At_EOF) { 6 Reg_Copy(20,1) // read one line into text register 20 7 Buf_Switch(#11) // switch to output file 8 Num_Ins(#1++, NOCR) // write line number 9 Ins_Text(" ") 10 Reg_Ins(20) // write the line 11 Buf_Switch(#10) // switch to input file 12 Line(1) // next line 13 } 14 Buf_Close(NOMSG) // close the input file 15 Buf_Switch(#11) // show the output
Visual Basic
<lang vb>' Read lines from a file ' ' (c) Copyright 1993 - 2011 Mark Hobley ' ' This code was ported from an application program written in Microsoft Quickbasic ' ' This code can be redistributed or modified under the terms of version 1.2 of ' the GNU Free Documentation Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Sub readlinesfromafile()
var.filename = "foobar.txt" var.filebuffersize = ini.inimaxlinelength Call openfileread If flg.error = "Y" Then flg.abort = "Y" Exit Sub End If If flg.exists <> "Y" Then flg.abort = "Y" Exit Sub End If
readfilelabela:
Call readlinefromfile If flg.error = "Y" Then flg.abort = "Y" Call closestream flg.error = "Y" Exit Sub End If If flg.endoffile <> "Y" Then ' We have a line from the file Print message$ GoTo readfilelabela End If ' End of file reached ' Close the file and exit Call closestream Exit Sub
End Sub
Sub openfileread()
flg.streamopen = "N" Call checkfileexists If flg.error = "Y" Then Exit Sub If flg.exists <> "Y" Then Exit Sub Call getfreestream If flg.error = "Y" Then Exit Sub var.errorsection = "Opening File" var.errordevice = var.filename If ini.errortrap = "Y" Then On Local Error GoTo openfilereaderror End If flg.endoffile = "N" Open var.filename For Input As #var.stream Len = var.filebuffersize flg.streamopen = "Y" Exit Sub
openfilereaderror:
var.errorcode = Err Call errorhandler resume '!!
End Sub
Public Sub checkfileexists()
var.errorsection = "Checking File Exists" var.errordevice = var.filename If ini.errortrap = "Y" Then On Local Error GoTo checkfileexistserror End If flg.exists = "N" If Dir$(var.filename, 0) <> "" Then flg.exists = "Y" End If Exit Sub
checkfileexistserror:
var.errorcode = Err Call errorhandler
End Sub
Public Sub getfreestream()
var.errorsection = "Opening Free Data Stream" var.errordevice = "" If ini.errortrap = "Y" Then On Local Error GoTo getfreestreamerror End If var.stream = FreeFile Exit Sub
getfreestreamerror:
var.errorcode = Err Call errorhandler resume '!!
End Sub
Sub closestream()
If ini.errortrap = "Y" Then On Local Error GoTo closestreamerror End If var.errorsection = "Closing Stream" var.errordevice = "" flg.resumenext = "Y" Close #var.stream If flg.error = "Y" Then flg.error = "N" '!! Call unexpectederror End If flg.streamopen = "N" Exit Sub
closestreamerror:
var.errorcode = Err Call errorhandler resume next
End Sub
Public Sub errorhandler()
tmp$ = btrim$(var.errorsection) tmp2$ = btrim$(var.errordevice) If tmp2$ <> "" Then tmp$ = tmp$ + " (" + tmp2$ + ")" End If tmp$ = tmp$ + " : " + Str$(var.errorcode) tmp1% = MsgBox(tmp$, 0, "Error!") flg.error = "Y" If flg.resumenext = "Y" Then flg.resumenext = "N"
' Resume Next
Else flg.error = "N"
' Resume
End If
End Sub
Public Function btrim$(arg$)
btrim$ = LTrim$(RTrim$(arg$))
End Function</lang>
Visual Basic .NET
<lang vbnet>Imports System.IO
' Loop through the lines of a file. ' Function assumes that the file exists. Private Sub ReadLines(ByVal FileName As String)
Dim oReader As New StreamReader(FileName) Dim sLine As String = Nothing
While Not oReader.EndOfStream sLine = oReader.ReadLine() ' Do something with the line. End While
oReader.Close()
End Sub</lang>
Wart
<lang wart>with infile "x"
drain (read_line)</lang>
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