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~~ MY FIRST ASYNC I/O! ~~

Write a program that uses a single asynchronous filesystem operation
to read a file and print the number of newlines it contains to the
console (stdout), similar to running `cat file | wc -l`.

The full path to the file to read will be provided as the first
command-line argument.

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HINTS:

The solution to this problem is almost the same as the previous
problem except you must now do it the Node.js way: asynchronous.

Instead of `fs.readFileSync()` you will want to use `fs.readFile()`
and instead of using the return value of this method you need to
collect the value from a callback function that you pass in as the
second argument.

Remember that idiomatic Node.js callbacks normally have the signature:

function (err, data) { ... }

so you can check if an error occurred by checking whether the first
argument is truthy. If there is no error, you should have your
`Buffer` object as the second argument. As with `readFileSync()`,
you can supply 'utf8' as the second argument and put the callback as
the third argument and you will get a `String` instead of a `Buffer`.

Documentation on the `fs` module can be found by pointing your browser
here:
C:\Users\dzhang\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\learnyounode\node_apidoc\fs.h
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var fs = require('fs');
fs.readFile(process.argv[2],"utf-8",function(err,data){
    if(err) throw err;
    console.log(data.split("\n").length-1);
});

 

posted @ 2013-12-04 18:40  星堡a  阅读(176)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报