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How to read a file line by line using node.js ?

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How to read a file line by line using node.js 

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Readline Module in Node.js allows the reading of input stream line by line. The given node.js code open the file 'demo.html' and return the content line by line.

var readline = require('readline');
var fs = require('fs');

var file= readline.createInterface({
  input: fs.createReadStream('demo.html')
});

var lineno = 0;
file.on('line', function (line) {
  lineno++;
  console.log('Line number ' + lineno + ': ' + line);
});

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