#Author:  James Tam
#Version: October 28, 2024

#Learning objective:
#*Alternatives to reading a single line of text from a file

print("Read all lines from file into a single string")
aFile = open("input.txt","r")
someText = aFile.read()
print(someText)
print("# char %d" %(len(someText)))
aFile.close()
print("-")
      
print("Read the first 'n' (in this case n=3) characters into a string")
aFile = open("input.txt","r")
someText = aFile.read(3)
print(someText)
print("# char %d of text" %(len(someText)), type(someText))
aFile.close()
print("-")

print("Read all lines from the file into a list, each line = a list element")
aFile = open("input.txt","r")
someText = aFile.readlines()
print(someText)
print("# list has %d elements, what was read into file is of type=" %(len(someText)), type(someText))
aFile.close()
print("-")