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I have to work with some SWI-Prolog code that opens a new stream (which creates a file on the file system) and pours some data in. The generated file is read somewhere else later on in the code.
I would like to replace the file stream with a string stream in Prolog so that no files are created and then read everything that was put in the stream as one big string.
Does SWI-Prolog have string streams? If so, how could I use them to accomplish this task? I would really appreciate it if you could provide a small snippet. Thank you!
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asked Jan 11 '23 15:01
SWI-Prolog implements memory mapped files. Here is a snippet from some old code of mine, doing both write/read
%% html2text(+Html, -Text) is det.
%
% convert from html to text
%
html2text(Html, Text) :-
html_clean(Html, HtmlDescription),
new_memory_file(Handle),
open_memory_file(Handle, write, S),
format(S, '<html><head><title>html2text</title></head><body>~s</body></html>', [HtmlDescription]),
close(S),
open_memory_file(Handle, read, R, [free_on_close(true)]),
load_html_file(stream(R), [Xml]),
close(R),
xpath(Xml, body(normalize_space), Text).
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