getify/literalizer

Handle streaming lexing

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#20 opened on Sep 7, 2013

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Description

[edit: renamed to change the scope/intent of this bug per this comment: https://github.com/getify/literalizer/issues/20#issuecomment-23993775]

fs.readFile (and fs.readFileSync) provides a Buffer object. Passing this into literalizer.lex returns very unexpected data.

It would be great if it could read from the buffer directly, but if it requires string input, could you pass the input of "lex" through String()?

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Investigate how literalizer.lex handles Buffer input. The fix could involve converting the Buffer to a string using String() or Buffer.toString() before processing, or modifying the lexer to accept Buffers directly.
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javascript
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backend
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2
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Clear
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Node.jsBuffers
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60