Re: slurp-file

z0d wrote:
Matt wrote: 

Hi, I'm new and I'm trying to load a file into a string and
return it, but this just returns an empty string.  I guess
the array is going out of scope?  How should I write this?


Maybe it will be interesting for you:
http://www.emmett.ca/~sabetts/slurp.html


Yeah, I saw that one, thanks.  Looking at the last version on
there, I guess I don't need the call to (values) at the end.  I
guess I knew that, but damn!  It's hard to remember all the
rules sometimes! :-)

Matt
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