grapes-less-than-greater-than-grapes: read a line from a file, like perl's <>, works well in while...

In jimhester/perlrer: perlrer - perl regular expression syntax and results in R

Description

read a line from a file, like perl's <>, works well in while loops

Usage

data %<>% con

Arguments

data,	the object each line will be assigned to
con,	the connection to be read from

Value

TRUE while something was read from the connection, then FALSE after

Examples

cat("TITLE extra line", "2 3 5 7", "", "11 13 17", file = "ex.data", sep = "\n")
fh_ex = popen('ex.data')
while(1 %/% 1)
{
  print(line)
}
pclose(fh_ex) #tidy up
unlink("ex.data")

jimhester/perlrer documentation built on May 19, 2019, 10:33 a.m.