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File-ByLine-1.000
River stage one • 1 direct dependent • 1 total dependent
/ File::ByLine

NAME

File::ByLine - Line-by-line file access loops

VERSION

version 1.000

SYNOPSIS

use File::ByLine;

#
# Execute a routine for each line of a file
#
forlines "file.txt", { say "Line: $_" };

#
# Grep (match) lines of a file
#
my (@result) = greplines { m/foo/ } "file.txt";

#
# Apply a function to each line and return result
#
my (@result) = maplines { lc($_) } "file.txt";

#
# Read an entire file, split into lines
#
my (@result) = readlines "file.txt";

DESCRIPTION

Finding myself writing the same trivial loops to read files, or relying on modules like Perl6::Slurp that didn't quite do what I needed (abstracting the loop), it was clear something easy, simple, and sufficiently Perl-ish was needed.

FUNCTIONS

forlines

forlines "file.txt", { say "Line: $_" };
forlines "file.txt", \&func;

This function calls a coderef once for each line in the file. The file is read line-by-line, removes the newline character(s), and then executes the coderef.

Each line (without newline) is passed to the coderef as the first parameter and only parameter to the coderef. It is also placed into $_.

This function returns the number of lines in the file.

greplines

my (@result) = greplines { m/foo/ } "file.txt";

This function calls a coderef once for each line in the file, and, based on the return value of that coderef, returns only the lines where the coderef evaluates to true. This is similar to the grep built-in function, except operating on file input rather than array input.

Each line (without newline) is passed to the coderef as the first parameter and only parameter to the coderef. It is also placed into $_.

This function returns the lines for which the coderef evaluates as true.

maplines

my (@result) = maplines { lc($_) } "file.txt";

This function calls a coderef once for each line in the file, and, returns an array of return values from those calls. This follows normal Perl rules - basically if the coderef returns a list, all elements of that list are added as distinct elements to the return value array. If the coderef returns an empty list, no elements are added.

Each line (without newline) is passed to the coderef as the first parameter and only parameter to the coderef. It is also placed into $_.

This is meant to be similar to the built-in map function.

This function returns the lines for which the coderef evaluates as true.

readlines

my (@result) = readlines "file.txt";

This function simply returns an array of lines (without newlines) read from a file.

AUTHOR

Joelle Maslak <jmaslak@antelope.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Joelle Maslak.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.