[erlang-questions] Erlang Basics: Reading File Content

[Atul Goyal]

File IO is one thing I really love in Erlang.

Especially with sockets , we can use :

         file:sendfile/2 (http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/file.html#sendfile-2)

for example :

somefunction()->
   ....
   ....
   {ok,Sock}=gen_tcp:connect( Ip , Port , []) ,
  ....
  ....
  {ok,Bytes_sent} = file:sendfile(Filename , Sock)
  ....
  ....


Of course you can add some error checking code to it :).



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> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:48:34 -0500
> From: Ari King <ari.brandeis.king@REDACTED>
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> I've just started with Erlang and to learn/practice I'm attempting to put
> together a simple TCP server that reads data from a file and writes it to a
> socket. So far I've put together some code to read the data (combination of
> ascii, binary, control characters). But since (as I understand) Erlang
> doesn't have a return mechanism, how do I read a line of data and return it
> to be written to the socket? Right now, the code just recursively collects
> the data.
>
>     -module(mock_tcp).
>     -export([start/1]).
>
>     start([Ip, Port, Filename]) ->
>       io:format("Server available at ~w on port ~w. Reading from ~w.", [Ip,
> Port, Filename]),
>       {ok, Device) = file:open(Filename, read),
>       try get_data(Device)
>         after file:close(Device)
>       end.
>
>     get_data(Device) ->
>       case io:get_line(Device) of
>         {ok, Data} -> [Data | get_data(Device)];
>         eof -> []
>       end.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ari
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