17 The STREAM package

stream-read-line

Generic Function

Summary

Returns a string read from a stream.

Package

stream

Signature

stream-read-line stream => result terminated

Arguments

stream: A stream.

Values

result: A string or:EOF.
terminated: A boolean.

Description

The generic functionstream-read-line reads a line of characters from stream and returns this line as a string. If the string is terminated by an end-of-file instead of a newline then terminated ist.

The default method uses repeated calls tostream-read-char, and usesstream-element-type to determine the element-type of its result.