Read a file one line at a time in node.js?

Question

I am trying to read a large file one line at a time. I found a question on Quora that dealt with the subject but I\'m missing some connections to make the whole thing fit to

Answer 1

I was frustrated by the lack of a comprehensive solution for this, so I put together my own attempt (git / npm). Copy-pasted list of features:

• Interactive line processing (callback-based, no loading the entire file into RAM)
• Optionally, return all lines in an array (detailed or raw mode)
• Interactively interrupt streaming, or perform map/filter like processing
• Detect any newline convention (PC/Mac/Linux)
• Correct eof / last line treatment
• Correct handling of multi-byte UTF-8 characters
• Retrieve byte offset and byte length information on per-line basis
• Random access, using line-based or byte-based offsets
• Automatically map line-offset information, to speed up random access
• Zero dependencies
• Tests

NIH? You decide :-)