5.11 The STREAMS module
read-to-end
Function
Summary
Returns a sequence containing all the elements up to, and including, the last element of the stream.
Signature
read-to-end input-stream => sequence
Arguments
- input-stream
- An instance of
<stream>.
Values
- sequence
- An instance of
<sequence>.
Library
io
Module
streams
Description
Returns a sequence of all the elements up to, and including, the last element of input-stream, starting from the stream's current position.
The type of the result sequence is as described for read. There is no special end-of-stream behavior; if the stream is already at its end, an empty collection is returned.
Example
read-to-end(make(<string-stream>, contents: "hello there, world", start: 6, end: 11));