[R] scan() Bug?

[Greg Riddick]

Thanks,

Right, I can see why sep="\n" might grab the entire "\13\10"  but it seems
like sep="\10" should not strip the "\13" also.

I need to read in this file (PDF file) and create a list of lines defined by
the "\10" delimiter.
Any suggestions how I could use ReadBin to do that?




>Not a strange feature, but the documented behaviour (and useful, too).
>You have opened the file in text mode.  If you want to keep CRs, open and
>read in binary mode.

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>
> Try opening the file as a connection using the 'read binary' mode.  If you
> are running on a Windows system, the operating system is taking \10\13 and
> mapping that to just '\n' since that is the normal sequence that Windows
> uses on text files.
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>
>                       "Greg Riddick"
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>
> I'm reading a file into a list by:
> PDF = scan("file",what="character",sep="\10")
>
> "\10" is the newline character in this file, also tried "\n" originally
>
> On lines that are ended by "\13\10", both are dropped from the list entry
> I want scan to keep the "\13" in the list entry.
>
> Is this a bug or just a strange feature?
>