How to read a file line by line in Dart

Question

This question is a continuation of a previous question. I wrote the following piece of code to determine if File.openRead() created a Stream that could be stre

Answer 1

If a stream is necessary, you can create it from the future that readAsLines() returns:

   Stream> stream = 
      new Stream.fromFuture(new File('Data.txt').readAsLines());

However it looks simpler to me to plainly process the lines one by one,

  List lines = new File('Data.txt').readAsLinesSync();
  for (var line in lines) {
    stdout.writeln(line); 
  }