stringi (version 0.2-5)

stri_read_lines: [DRAFT API] Read Text Lines from a Text File

Description

Reads a text file, re-encodes it, and splits it into text lines.

[THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FUNCTION]

Usage

stri_read_lines(fname, encoding = "auto", locale = NA,
  fallback_encoding = stri_enc_get())

Arguments

fname

single string with file name

encoding

single string; input encoding, "auto" for automatic detection with stri_enc_detect2, and NULL or "" for the current default encoding.

locale

single string passed to stri_enc_detect2; NULL or "" for default locale, NA for checking just UTF-* family

fallback_encoding

single string; encoding to be used if encoding detection fails; defaults to the current default encoding, see stri_enc_get

Value

• Returns a character vector, with each line of text being a single string. The output is always in UTF-8.

Details

It is a substitute for the system's readLines function, with the ability to auto-detect input encodings (or specify one manually), re-encode input without any strange function calls or sys options change, and split the text into lines with stri_split_lines1 (which conforms with the Unicode guidelines for newline markers).

If locale is NA and auto-detect of UTF-32/16/8 fails, then fallback_encoding is used.

See Also

Other files: stri_read_raw; stri_write_lines