Mentions countLines() may return unexpected values.

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Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
2014-07-18 12:54:52 +02:00
parent 935bade994
commit 5a3c88d3ad

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@@ -280,9 +280,11 @@ iterator split*(s: string, sep: string): string =
inc(last, sep.len)
iterator splitLines*(s: string): string =
## Splits the string `s` into its containing lines. Every newline
## combination (CR, LF, CR-LF) is supported. The result strings contain
## no trailing ``\n``.
## Splits the string `s` into its containing lines.
##
## Every `character literal <manual.html#character-literals>`_ newline
## combination (CR, LF, CR-LF) is supported. The result strings contain no
## trailing ``\n``.
##
## Example:
##
@@ -315,13 +317,25 @@ iterator splitLines*(s: string): string =
proc splitLines*(s: string): seq[string] {.noSideEffect,
rtl, extern: "nsuSplitLines".} =
## The same as the `splitLines` iterator, but is a proc that returns a
## sequence of substrings.
## The same as the `splitLines <#splitLines.i,string>`_ iterator, but is a
## proc that returns a sequence of substrings.
accumulateResult(splitLines(s))
proc countLines*(s: string): int {.noSideEffect,
rtl, extern: "nsuCountLines".} =
## same as ``len(splitLines(s))``, but much more efficient.
## Returns the number of new line separators in the string `s`.
##
## This is the same as ``len(splitLines(s))``, but much more efficient
## because it doesn't modify the string creating temporal objects. Every
## `character literal <manual.html#character-literals>`_ newline combination
## (CR, LF, CR-LF) is supported.
##
## Despite its name this proc might not actually return the *number of lines*
## in `s` because the concept of what a line is can vary. For example, a
## string like ``Hello world`` is a line of text, but the proc will return a
## value of zero because there are no newline separators. Also, text editors
## usually don't count trailing newline characters in a text file as a new
## empty line, but this proc will.
var i = 0
while i < s.len:
case s[i]