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Name: STREAM-GET
Section:
Stream Operators
Synopsis:
<stream-get STREAM [STOP-AT=CHARACTER]>
Description:
Reads a chunk of data from STREAM and returns it. STREAM
is read until the character value specified by CHARACTER
(defaulting to a newline) is reached, and that data upto and including
the final CHARACTER is returned. One way to read all of the
available data is to supply the empty string as the value of
STOP-AT:
<with-open-stream stream www.ua.com:80 type=tcp mode=read-write>
<stream-put stream "GET /welcome.mhtml HTTP/1.0\n\n">
<set-var the-page=<stream-get stream stop-at="">>
</with-open-stream>
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Brian J. Fox,
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