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slurp



    function
    boot.janet on line 1699, column 1

    (slurp path)

    Read all data from a file with name `path` and then close the file.

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# foo.txt is a file with contents "hello\nworld\n".
(slurp "foo.txt")  # => @"hello\nworld\n"
(string/split "\n" (slurp "foo.txt"))  # => @["hello" "world" ""]

(defn slurp-lines [path]
  (string/split "\n" (slurp path)))

(slurp-lines "foo.txt")  # => @["hello" "world" ""]

(string/join @["hello" "world" ""] "\n")  # => "hello\nworld\n"
(spit "foo2.txt" (string/join @["hello" "world" ""] "\n"))
# The contents of foo.txt and foo2.txt are now identical.

(defn spit-lines [path lines]
  (spit path (string/join lines "\n")))

(spit-lines "foo3.txt" (slurp-lines "foo.txt"))
# The contents of foo.txt and foo3.txt are now identical.

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