Most times we want to work with an external file, especially when it involves reading text. So, let's learn how to read a file in Clojure. We will be making use of the slurp method. The slurp method is used to read a file.
slurp filename
filename: The slurp method receives a single parameter which is the file name.The slurp method returns a string from a file.
(ns clojure.examples.hello(:gen-class))(defn func [](println (slurp "file.txt");; (let [file1 (slurp "file.txt")] (println file1));; we can store the string in a variable as well)(func)
The above code example illustrates how we use the slurp method to read a text file.
func.slurp method that contains the contents of file.txt file. Note: We have the
main.clj, which is our code, and thefile.txt, which is the file we are reading from.
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