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Reading

Read the contents of a file into a string

ruby
file = File.new("Solution108.rb")
whole_file = file.read
cpp
IO::FileStream^ file; String^ buffer;

try
{
file = gcnew IO::FileStream("test.txt", IO::FileMode::Open);
buffer = gcnew String((gcnew IO::BinaryReader(file))->ReadChars(file->Length));
}
IO::StreamReader^ stream; String^ buffer;

try
{
stream = gcnew IO::StreamReader("test.txt");
buffer = stream->ReadToEnd();
}
String^ buffer = IO::File::ReadAllText("test.txt");
fantom
contents := File(`file.text`).readAllStr

Process a file one line at a time

Open the source file to your solution and print each line in the file, prefixed by the line number, like:
1> First line of file
2> Second line of file
3> Third line of file
ruby
File.open("Solution103.rb").each_with_index { |line, count|
puts "#{count} > #{line}
}
cpp
IO::StreamReader^ stream; String^ ln; int i = 0;

try
{
stream = gcnew IO::StreamReader("test.txt");
while ((ln = stream->ReadLine())) Console::WriteLine("{0}> {1}", ++i, ln);
}
int i = 0;
for each(String^ line in IO::File::ReadAllLines("test.txt")) Console::WriteLine("{0}> {1}", ++i, line);
fantom
File(`input.text`).readAllLines.each |Str s, Int i| { echo("${i+1}> $s") }
Writing

Write a string to a file

ruby
File.new("a_file", "w") << "some text"
cpp
IO::StreamWriter^ stream;

try
{
stream = gcnew IO::StreamWriter("test.txt", false);
stream->WriteLine("This line overwites file contents!");
}
fantom
File(`out.txt`).out.writeChars("some text").flush

Append to a file

ruby
file = File.new('/tmp/test.txt', 'a+') ; file.puts 'This line appended to file!!' ; file.close()
cpp
IO::StreamWriter^ stream;

try
{
stream = gcnew IO::StreamWriter("test.txt", true);
stream->WriteLine("This line appended to file!");
}
fantom
File(`out.txt`).out(true).writeChars("some text").flush
Directories

Process each file in a directory

ruby
directory = '/tmp' ; Dir.foreach(directory) {|file| puts "#{file}"}
cpp
for each(String^ filename in IO::Directory::GetFiles(dirname)) process(filename);
fantom
File(`./`).list.each { process(it) }

Process each file in a directory recursively

ruby
def procdir(dirname)
Dir.foreach(dirname) do |dir|
dirpath = dirname + '/' + dir
if File.directory?(dirpath) then
if dir != '.' && dir != '..' then
puts "DIRECTORY: #{dirpath}" ; procdir(dirpath)
end
else
puts "FILE: #{dirpath}"
end
end
end

# ------

procdir('/tmp')
cpp
void processFile(String^ filename) { Console::WriteLine("{0}", filename); }

void processDirectory(String^ dirname)
{
for each(String^ filename in IO::Directory::GetFiles(dirname)) processFile(filename);
for each(String^ subdirname in IO::Directory::GetDirectories(dirname)) processDirectory(subdirname);
}

int main()
{
processDirectory("c:\\");
}
fantom
File(`./`).walk { process(it) }