[racket] Reading drracket files into text%

p.s. In that case, just read and strip the first three lines. See 'load'. 


On Aug 31, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Ryan Golbeck wrote:

> I'm modifying the handin-server collection to include an option where
> our students can retrieve "starter" files for assignments and labs.
> Since these files will be saved on the server directly from DrRacket,
> rather than through the handin infrastructure, the files include these
> three lines of meta data.
> 
> I was hoping to use pretty much the same infrastructure already
> provided in the handin-server and client to transmit the files, so I
> was trying to massage the starter files into the same format that the
> client already expects when it retrieves a submitted assignment.  So,
> I'm running into the problem that these first three lines are in files
> saved by DrRacket, but not in files that the handin-server saves for a
> submitted assignment.
> 
> So I don't specifically have to read it into a text% object.  But I'm
> not sure the best way to handle them.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> -ryan
> 
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> You have to specially remove those lines yourself in that case.
>> 
>> But if you say a little more about why you want to read something into
>> a text% object, I may give a different answer (it isn't clear what you
>> want to do with this stuff).
>> 
>> Robby
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Ryan Golbeck <rmgolbec at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>> What's the proper way to read a file produced by DrRacket into a text% object?
>>> 
>>> Using load-file produces problems when DrRacket has created a file
>>> where the first three lines contain meta data information about the
>>> language to use.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> -ryan
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