(current-line) vs. $0

[Sammo]

Using HPW's NeoBook interface to newLISP.DLL, I wrote this program to copy an input text file (Data1.txt) to an output text file (Data2.txt) eliminating duplicate entries along the way. Basically, (unique (contents of Data1.txt)) -> Data2.txt.

This is the NeoBook Interface which establishes the input and output files and then calls the NewLisp code:

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SetVar "[LispCode]" "(set 'inFile (open {[PubDir]Data1.txt} {read}))"
hpwNewLispCall "[PubDir]" "[LispCode]" "[LispResult]"

SetVar "[LispCode]" "(set 'outFile (open {[PubDir]Data2.txt} {write}))"
hpwNewLispCall "[PubDir]" "[LispCode]" "[LispResult]"

hpwFileRead "[PubDir]LispCode.txt" "ALL" "[LispCode]"
hpwNewLispCall "[PubDir]" "[LispCode]" "[LispResult]"

And here is LispCode.Txt (the newLISP code is kept in a separate file and read by the hpwFileRead line above):

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(set 'uniqueLines '())
(while (read-line inFile)
    (if (not (member (current-line) uniqueLines))
        (set 'uniqueLines (append uniqueLines (list (current-line))))))
(close inFile)
(map (lambda (aLine) (write-line aLine outFile)) uniqueLines)
(close outFile)

My question is this: On manual page 57, (current-line) is deprecated in favor of $0, but I'm not sure how to use $0. I originally wrote (in part):

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(while (read-line inFile)
    (if (not (member $0 uniqueLines))
        (set 'uniqueLines (append uniqueLines (list $0)))))

but that didn't work at all, so I tried:

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(while (read-line inFile)
    (set 'myLine $0)
    (if (not (member myLine uniqueLines))
        (set 'uniqueLines (append uniqueLines (list myLine)))))

thinking that the value of $0 had to be captured quickly before it could was changed by another funciton. But that didn't work, either.

Instead of $0 I'm using (current-line) successfully but wondering what I should be using?

Thanks,
-- Sam

[Lutz]

The decision to deprecate 'current-line' has been reversed meanwhile and 'current-line' will not be deprecated.

I suggest when working with NeoBook newlisp.dll you get the lates version of the manual from the newLISP distribution in the development directory:

http://newlisp.org/download/development/

because a lot of things have changed since the official release version 7.3.1.

Also in my previous post about the >2048 limitation I was wrong: that >2048 limitation does *not* exist for 'parse' with break-string, and I tried it out on a file. So I am not sure what caused the error message in your case.

Lutz