EnhancedFile.scala

package com.maasfrensch

import java.io._

/**
 * Adds some useful methods to file, to be used implicitely:
 *    implicit def file2enhanced(file:File) = new EnhancedFile(file)
 * @author [email protected]
 */
class EnhancedFile(val file:File) {
  def readLines(block: String => Unit) = EnhancedFile.readLines(file, block)
  def asString = EnhancedFile.asString(file)
}


object EnhancedFile {
  def readLines(file:File, block: String => Unit) = {
    var reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
    manage(reader) {
      var thisLine:String = ""
      var line:String = reader.readLine
      while (line != null) {
        block(line)
        line = reader.readLine
      }
    }
  }

  def process(source:File, target:File, block: String => String) = {
    var reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(source))
    var writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(target))
    manage(reader, writer) {
      var thisLine:String = ""
      var line:String = reader.readLine
      while (line != null) {
        var res = block(line)
        writer.write(res)
        writer.newLine
        line = reader.readLine
      }
    }
  }

  def asString(file:File):String = {
    val data = new StringBuilder()
    readLines(file, data.append(_).append("\n"))
    data.toString
  }

  private type Closeable = { def close() }

  private def manage(closeables: Closeable*)(block: => Unit) = {
    try {
      block
    } finally {
      closeables.foreach({closeable =>
        try{
          closeable.close()
        } catch {
          case t:Throwable => t.printStackTrace
        }
      })
    }
  }
}