fruitstand/examples/nodejs-mongodb-angularjs-web-development/ch06/reading/file_read_stream.js

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var fs = require('fs');
var options = { encoding: 'utf8', flag: 'r' };
var fileReadStream = fs.createReadStream("../data/grains.txt",  options);
fileReadStream.on('data', function(chunk) {
  console.log('Grains: %s', chunk);
  console.log('Read %d bytes of data.', chunk.length);
});
fileReadStream.on("close", function(){
  console.log("File Closed.");
});