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Problems with do:

Jerome Peace
Hi andy

Well back to front it would be

[ :line | Transcript show: line; cr.] value:
aFileStream nextLine .

which should do what you want.

Yours in service, -- Jeorme Peace

>[Newbies] Problems with do:
>andy.burnett at knowinnovation.com andy.burnett at
knowinnovation.com
>Sat Sep 16 21:51:41 UTC 2006

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I need someone to poke me with a clue stick please!
>
>I am trying to step through a file a line at a time.
I had the idea that
>this should work
>
>aFileStream nextLine do: [ :line| Transcript show:
line; cr.].
>
>Unfortunately (as will be obvious to everyone) what
it actually does is
>print a character at a time.  It took me a while to
realise that   -
>aFileStream nextLine  - is returning a string and the
  -  do:  - passing
>the block to each character.
>
>I need a way of passing the block to the string a
line at a time. Or
>perhaps I have got this totally back to front and
there is a much easier
>way of doing this?


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