[Jprogramming] Scanning a large file

[Oleg Kobchenko]

These are interesting stories about line terminators.
I agree on providing all the data.
But I think absence of final terminator is more
a stylistic issue (or a matter of choice) than a defect.

Hence, it more like truthful conveying than alerting
cleanliness.

Here's on cygwin:

xx at yy ~
$ cat > t1.txt
one
two

xx at yy ~
$ cat > t2.txt
one
two
xx at yy ~
$ od -c t1.txt
0000000   o   n   e  \r  \n   t   w   o  \r  \n
0000012

xx at yy ~
$ od -c t2.txt
0000000   o   n   e  \r  \n   t   w   o
0000010


P.S. Unless, it's just an excuse to bash Microsoft again: 
picking on Excel, that "$" in the name... If you don't
like it -- don't use it. Any program can do that: 
you can either put EOL at the end or not,
so the chance is 50-50. :-)



--- Joey K Tuttle <jkt at qued.com> wrote:

> In any case, because of programs like Excel, any line reading
> program should do its best to provide all the data - and should
> likely alert the user that things didn't end cleanly...


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