Is there a built-in way to read stdin as a stream?...

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[Lewis Diamond]

Is there a built-in way to read stdin as a stream? Something like Node's process.stdin?

[nanodeath]

well, there's System.in

[nanodeath]

the global readLine() might also be useful

[Lewis Diamond]

I did this with readLine() but that's kinda bad:

fun stdin(): Flow<String?> = flow { // flow builder
    while (true) {
        var x = readLine();
        emit(x);
    }
}

[Lewis Diamond]

testing out System.in

[Lewis Diamond]

Need to look at that syntax though

[nanodeath]

I don't know about flows, but you at least want readLine() ?: break...and no semicolons 😛