Read file line by line
There is a Reader
type in Zig, which provides various methods to read file, such as readAll
, readInt
. Here we will use takeDelimiterExclusive
to split lines.
const std = @import("std");
const fs = std.fs;
const print = std.debug.print;
pub fn main() !void {
const file = try fs.cwd().openFile("tests/zig-zen.txt", .{});
defer file.close();
var file_buffer: [4096]u8 = undefined;
var reader = file.reader(&file_buffer);
var line_no: usize = 0;
while (reader.interface.takeDelimiterExclusive('\n')) |line| {
line_no += 1;
print("{d}--{s}\n", .{ line_no, line });
} else |err| switch (err) {
error.EndOfStream => {}, // Normal termination
else => return err, // Propagate error
}
print("Total lines: {d}\n", .{line_no});
}