file-string

Returns the contents of a file as a string.

hcl

file-string file &key length external-format => string

`file`⇩	A pathname designator.
`length`⇩	An integer or `nil` (the default).
`external-format`⇩	An external format specification.

string

A string.

The function file-string returns the entire contents of file (if length is nil), or the first length characters, as a string.

external-format is interpreted as for open. The default value is :default.

CL-USER 26 > file-string "configure.lisp" :length 18
";; -*- Mode: Lisp;"