How to close a readable stream (before end)?

Question

How to close a readable stream in Node.js?

var input = fs.createReadStream(\'lines.txt\');

input.on(\'data\', function(data) {
   // after closing the strea         


        

Answer 1

This code here will do the trick nicely:

function closeReadStream(stream) {
    if (!stream) return;
    if (stream.close) stream.close();
    else if (stream.destroy) stream.destroy();
}

writeStream.end() is the go-to way to close a writeStream...