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Re: Scanning

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On 19 Jan 2023 14:48:29 GMT
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> >Let's take a very simple task: This scanner for text files
> >has nothing more to do than to return every character,
> >except to strip the spaces at the end of a line.
> 
>   Richard said that it matters what I need this for.
> 
>   I'd like to implement a tiny markup language similar
>   to languages like "Markdown" or "reStructuredText".
>   It should ignore spaces at the end of lines.
>   I'm going to implement it in Python.

Does it need to have functionality where it produces output before it has
seen all the input ? If not , then I would not just read a whole line but a
whole file (or input) ! It seems extravagant but unless you have a realistic
scenario where you worry that the whole input won't fit into memory , it is
simplest to read the whole input into memory.

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