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> I copy-pasted my search term exactly in the previous post.

I'm bringing up a problem with how the language presents itself to beginners, not asking you to solve a specific problem for me. If searching is the answer to everything, then there needs to be a concerted effort to take Google-juice away from bad or deprecated answers.

Incidentally, the search result you're describing for "lines" says "An iterator over the lines of an instance of BufRead.", which only appears to be the answer to "how do I iterate lines of a file?" if you already know what the answer is.



No no, I very much appreciate it!

I think we have two searches confused. When I meant "my exact query, when we were taking about Google, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13585902

I find it interesting that we got different results.

I thought "an iterator over lines" would be enough; maybe not.




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