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stringi (version 1.2.2)

stri_read_raw: [DRAFT API] Read Whole Text File as Raw

Description

Reads a text file as-is, with no conversion or text line splitting.

[THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FUNCTION]

Usage

stri_read_raw(fname)

Arguments

fname

file name

Value

Returns a raw vector.

Details

After reading a text file into memory (the vast majority of them will fit into RAM without any problems), you may perform encoding detection (cf. stri_enc_detect2), conversion (cf. stri_encode), and for example split it into text lines with stri_split_lines1.

See Also

Other files: stri_read_lines, stri_write_lines