Dlang byLineCopy skipping lines

Question

I have the following D program that is supposed to group input lines into groups of size 3.

import std.stdio;
import std.range;
import std.array;

void main()
{
  while (!stdin.eof) {
    auto currentBlock = array(take(stdin.byLineCopy, 3));

    foreach (i, e; currentBlock) {
      writefln("%d) %s", i, e);
    }
  }
}

and given the following input

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

it produces the output.

0) Mercury
1) Venus
2) Earth
0) Jupiter
1) Saturn
2) Uranus
0) Pluto

skipping the line at the border on each iteration (Mars and Neptune are not in the output). What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

stdin.byLineCopy calls popFront, meaning that repeated calls to this on the same input stream will 'skip' elements. Try creating a byLineCopy range only once at the start:

void main()
{
    auto r = stdin.byLineCopy;
    while (!r.empty) {
        foreach (i, e; r.take(3).enumerate) {
          writefln("%d) %s", i, e);
        }
    }
}

You don't need to check for eof, as byLineCopy should handle that.