From: Belorion <belorion@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T00:42:25+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.lineno= not behaving as expected

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> If remember that the docn says that lineno=3D just changes the current
> value of lineno -- if you check the result of f.lineno after your
> f.readline above, you'll get 5. Not sure how useful that behavior is,
> but that's how it's defined....


I noticed that ... but, what, exactly is that useful for? (as you already
questioned) It seems like I am missing something here, because otherwise
lineno=3D() seems useless and misleading.


Suggest that you read the file into memory and split it by lines
> (File#readlines IIRC, not near the manual now).
>

The only problem with that is I need to query, say, only 1000 lines in a
file with 195_199_572 lines in it.

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