Once you read a text file using

auto MyDictionary = import ("dictionary.txt");

how can you parse this into a string array stripping the CrLf from the end of each line?

I suspect there is some variant of the split library function that will parse it into a string array for me but because DOS lines end with the CrLf which is 2 characters I'm not sure if there is a way to do this with a one line call to a lib function.

And as I understand it with the import this file is read in at compile time so after it has been parsed into the string array, is there a way to free the storage that was used by the variable MyDictionary.

I like this method because it minimizes the number of files I have to distribute with my executable and prevents users from modifying the files but I don't really want to keep 2 copies of the data (imported and string array) in my program as the files brought in will be quite large.

I realize I could just read it old school a record at a time but that's usually slower and requires a bit more code.

Also if the files I am reading in have include references #include filename are the any lib calls that can read in the main file and expand the #include files as it reads.

Gary Miller:

> Once you read a text file using
>
> auto MyDictionary = import ("dictionary.txt");
>
> how can you parse this into a string array stripping the CrLf from the end of each line?


import std.string;

immutable myDictionary = import("dictionary.txt").splitLines;
//pragma(msg, myDictionary);

void main() {}

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