[Chicken-users] Re: Adding (system->string) somewhere

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Zbigniew  <address@hidden> writes:

 >> I am using the following code, which just takes a single string:
 >> (define (system->string cmd) (string-chomp (with-input-from-pipe cmd
 >> read-all)))

 > First, the string-chomp is pointless unless you're reading only one
 > line.  Why chomp just the last newline of a multi-line string?

        Believe me or not, but the POSIX Shell behaves exactly that way.
        Consider using `print' on the result:

(print (system-string "ls"))

        I'm not sure that one should mimic the Shell behaviour in
        Scheme, though.

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