[Bioperl-l] Linefeed mix-up (bug #903)

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Brad Langhorst wrote:

> On Thursday 22 February 2001 02:46 am, you wrote:
> > "Brad Langohrst (by way of Brad Langohrst )" wrote:
> > > I've been a lurker for a really long while....
> > >
> > > It should be possible to do the parse without passing any extra
> > > parameters. If you know the file you are reading is a relatively small
> > > text file this method should be safe to use...
> > >
> > > 1 - read in the file to an array with EOL set to \r\n
> >
> > Well, in BioPerl the SeqIO system has to deal with files that
> > easily exceed hundreds of MB :-)
> >
> > 	Hilmar
> 
> i realize that  - however - 
> you don't have to read the whole file into an array, just a few lines is 
> sufficient to determine the EOL.  Hopefully the EOL does not change in the 
> same file.

I don't think we can do file "sniffs" like this because often you are
reading from pipes etc.


I feel like... well... just saying "it works on UNIX". I guess that's a
little small-minded right?


PS - I am about to get into my extension bugs now.



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> brad
> 
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