Try file->string<div> </div><div>Jay <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, prad <<a href="mailto:prad@towardsfreedom.com">prad@towardsfreedom.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">i'm trying to read a text file into a string, sort of like readFile path -- in haskell or handle = open(path, 'r'); data = handle.read() # in python however, in the guide open-input-file call-with-input-file all use read-line in lisp i could get the length of the stream and slurp the whole file in: (defun slurp (path) "one way of reading in files" (with-open-file (stream path) (let ((seq (make-array (file-length stream) :element-type 'character))) (read-sequence seq stream) seq))) but what am i supposed to in racket? (other than read-line right through to the end of the file, may be?) or is reading it all in at one shot not considered the right way to do it here? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom <a href="http://www.towardsfreedom.com" target="_blank">http://www.towardsfreedom.com</a> (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </div>