Re: newbie: read, load and eval

[Mike Gran]

Let's say you had a file "a.data" that contained

("This" "is" "a" "test")

Note that there is no initial quote.

One way would be 

(display (read (open-input-file "a.data")))

but this doesn't explicity close the file "a.data" right after the call, which 
might be an issue if you are opening a lot of files.

One step up could be

(call-with-input-file "a.data"  (lambda (p) (display (read p))))

This will explicity close the file after it is read.

Note that this specifically reads exactly one s-expression from the top of the 
file, as you requested.  It might be simpler to have an "a.data" that contained 
a bunch of (define) statements, like so

(define a '("This" "is" "a" "test"))

Then you could (load "a.data") that file, and the defined variables would be 
available.

Hope this helps,

Mike Gran

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Subject: newbie: read, load and eval

This seems like the simplest thing which guile ought to be able to do
in a snap, but I can't for the life of me work out how to do it.

I have a file called a.data which contains some data as a scheme
expression, such as

'("This" "is" "a" "test")

and I want to use these data in a program, so I want to write a line
like

(display (load "a.data"))

but it doesn't work; nor does

(with-input-from-file "a.data" (lambda () (display (read))))


What is the way to do this?


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