It would be good to have some classes for reading/writing text files. My thought is that it would:

- auto-detect UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32, first by checking for a BOM and then heuristically

- be able to write out a file in any of these formats on request

- use dchars to communicate text with the class user

- automatically understand PC, Unix and Mac line breaks and be able to write out any of these kinds on request (obviously defaulting to the native format); possibly be able to tell the class user which kind an input file is using

- support ANSI/Windows, IBM/DOS and possibly other encodings on request; ideally enable the programmer to specify a custom encoding (at least in the single-byte case)

- include a version of writef and writefln

- make it simple to read/write a whole text file from/to a dchar[] at once, as well as providing stream functions.

Any takers?  Or anyone already working on such a thing?

Stewart.

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In article <cd3nkt$2e2e$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
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>It would be good to have some classes for reading/writing text files. My thought is that it would:
>
>- auto-detect UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32, first by checking for a BOM and then heuristically
>
>- be able to write out a file in any of these formats on request
>
>- use dchars to communicate text with the class user
>
>- automatically understand PC, Unix and Mac line breaks and be able to write out any of these kinds on request (obviously defaulting to the native format); possibly be able to tell the class user which kind an input file is using
>
>- support ANSI/Windows, IBM/DOS and possibly other encodings on request; ideally enable the programmer to specify a custom encoding (at least in the single-byte case)
>
>- include a version of writef and writefln
>
>- make it simple to read/write a whole text file from/to a dchar[] at once, as well as providing stream functions.
>
>Any takers?  Or anyone already working on such a thing?
>
>Stewart.
>
>-- 
>My e-mail is valid but not my primary mailbox, aside from its being the unfortunate victim of intensive mail-bombing at the moment.  Please keep replies on the 'group where everyone may benefit.


This would be awesome, i'm totally ignorant on the subject though so can't help , but would defintly use it!

Charlie