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Re: how to read file's content using elisp?
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John Sullivan |
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Re: how to read file's content using elisp? |
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:10:34 -0400 |
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Rokia <Rokiadd@yahoo.com.cn.discuss> writes:
> what I want to do is reading a file's content into a string
> variable. like this.
>
> (setq dddstring (foo-read-file "dd.txt"))
> (prin1 dddstring)
I'm not trustworthy on these matters, but here's a once-tested
quickie:
(defun foo-read-file (full-filename)
"Read a file and return foo-file as a string."
(with-temp-buffer
(insert-file-contents full-filename)
(buffer-string)))
This should work with the syntax you used.
-John
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Re: how to read file's content using elisp?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/15
Re: how to read file's content using elisp?, Miguel Frasson, 2004/09/15