Comments on: Simple file IO in different dynamic languages

By: Asbjørn Ulsberg

Asbjørn Ulsberg — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:27:27 +0000

If you want, you can add C# 2.0 to the list with the following code:


class Program {
  static void Main(string[] args) {
    foreach (string line in System.IO.File.ReadAllLines("test.txt")) {
      System.Console.WriteLine(line);
    }
  }
}

There are a million ways to do this in C#, each with different properties, benefits and drawbacks. This particular option gives the simplest code, but since it reads every line into an array, it’s not optimal for very large files.

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:58:00 +0000

There’s also an alternative way to output the file content in Ruby:

puts File.read(“text.txt”)

Less OO, but less verbose.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:03:56 +0000

FYI: just ran Jython… it comes in between Groovy and Scala with 0m1.118s…