Re: io:lines() and \0

[Scott Morgan <blumf@...>]

On 19/02/14 12:08, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
> <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>> I do not know how long is the bible
>> ~ 4.3MBytes.
>>> or where to grab it,
>>   http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10/pg10.txt
>> (I got this idea of using the Bible for file tests from Kernighan:
>>    http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html)
> 
> Thanks. I've seen it before, ( using the bible ) but didn't knew which
> one. I'll just do some tests with 20*bible, to compare.

The Hindu Mahabharata takes ~15MB in English .txt form:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/

I think it's the longest single work of literature (there are bigger
reference works, like the Yongle Dadian)

Scott