node-readlines-next

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node-readlines-next is a fork of node-readlines! A package developed by Yoan Arnaudov! Original Repo here

The author wasn't active for 2 years up to now!

I took the deliberate to Fork it! Merged one PR (One bring better performance) [check here]!
And added typescript declarations!

Also if any PR are send! I'll make sure to treat them!

Original author description

Reading file line by line may seem like a trivial problem, but in node, there is no straightforward way to do it. There are a lot of libraries using Transform Streams to achieve it, but it seems like a overkill, so I've wrote simple version using only the filesystem module of node. Note that this is synchronous library.

Install with
npm install n-readlines-next

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Documentation

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Arguments

* filename - String path to the file you want to read from
* fd - File descriptor
* options - Object
* readChunk - Integer number of bytes to read at once. Default: 1024
* newLineCharacter - String new line character, only works with one byte characters for now. Default: \n which is 0x0a hex encoded

node-readlines can handle files without newLineCharacter after the last line

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Returns buffer with the line data without the newLineCharacter or false if end of file is reached.

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Resets the pointer and starts from the beginning of the file. This works only if the end is not reached.

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Example

``javascript
var ReadLines = require('n-readlines');
var liner = new ReadLines('./textFile.txt');

var line;
var lineNumber = 0;
while (line = liner.next()) {
console.log('Line ' + lineNumber + ': ' + line.toString('ascii'));
lineNumber++;
}

console.log('end of line reached');
`

Typescript

For imports and types

`ts
import LineReader, { ReadLinesOptions } from 'n-readlines-next';
`

`ts
export class CsvReader {
private _lineReader: LineReader;
}
``