How do I read an input stream until EOF in Lisp? In C, you might do it like this:
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
{
// Loop body...
}
I would like to be able to pipe data to my Lisp programs without having to specify the data size in advance. Here's an example from something I'm doing now:
(dotimes (i *n*)
(setf *t* (parse-integer (read-line) :junk-allowed T))
(if (= (mod *t* *k*) 0) (incf *count*)))
In this loop, the variable *n*
specifies the number of lines I'm piping to the program (the value is read from the first line of input), but I would like to just process an arbitrary and unknown number of lines, stopping when it reaches the end of the stream.
See the HyperSpec for READ-LINE
(loop for line = (read-line stream nil :eof) ; stream, no error, :eof value
until (eq line :eof)
do ... )
or sometimes with nil
(loop for line = (read-line stream nil nil)
while line
do ... )
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