Re: how to read file's content using elisp?

[John Sullivan]

Rokia <Rokiadd@yahoo.com.cn.discuss> writes:

> what I want to do is reading a file's content into a string
> variable. like this.
>
> (setq dddstring (foo-read-file "dd.txt"))
> (prin1 dddstring)

I'm not trustworthy on these matters, but here's a once-tested
quickie:

(defun foo-read-file (full-filename)
  "Read a file and return foo-file as a string."
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents full-filename)
    (buffer-string)))

This should work with the syntax you used.

-John

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