Name Rascal/Libraries/Prelude/IO/readFileLines

Synopsis Read the contents of a file location and return it as a list of strings.

Function list[str] readFileLines(loc file) throws PathNotFound(loc file), IO(str msg)

Usage import IO;

Description Return the contents of a file location as a list of lines. Also see readFile.

Encoding

Look at readFile to understand how this function chooses the character set. If you know the character set used, please use readFileLinesEnc.

Pitfalls

• In case encoding is not known, we try to estimate as best as we can (see readFile).
• We default to UTF-8, if the file was not encoded in UTF-8 but the first characters were valid UTF-8, you might get an decoding error or just strange looking characters (see readFile).

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