Takes a string and returns a text input port that delivers characters from the string. The port can be closed by close-input-port, though its storage will be reclaimed by the garbage collector if it becomes inaccessible.

(define p
  (open-input-string "(a . (b c . ())) 34"))

(input-port? p)                 ⇒  #t
(read p)                        ⇒  (a b c)
(read p)                        ⇒  34
(eof-object? (peek-char p))     ⇒  #t

Returns an textual output port that will accumulate characters for retrieval by get-output-string. The port can be closed by the procedure close-output-port, though its storage will be reclaimed by the garbage collector if it becomes inaccessible.

(let ((q (open-output-string))
  (x '(a b c)))
    (write (car x) q)
    (write (cdr x) q)
    (get-output-string q))        ⇒  "a(b c)"

Given an output port created by open-output-string, returns a string consisting of the characters that have been output to the port so far in the order they were output. If the result string is modified, the effect is unspecified.

(parameterize
    ((current-output-port (open-output-string)))
    (display "piece")
    (display " by piece ")
    (display "by piece.")
    (newline)
    (get-output-string (current-output-port)))
        ⇒ "piece by piece by piece.\n"

Create an input port that gets its data from string, call proc with that port as its one argument, and return the result from the call of proc

Create an output port that writes its data to a string, and call proc with that port as its one argument. Return a string consisting of the data written to the port.

Takes a bytevector and returns a binary input port that delivers bytes from the bytevector.

Returns a binary output port that will accumulate bytes for retrieval by get-output-bytevector.

Returns a bytevector consisting of the bytes that have been output to the port so far in the order they were output. It is an error if port was not created with open-output-bytevector.

The read procedure converts external representations of Scheme objects into the objects themselves. That is, it is a parser for the non-terminal datum. It returns the next object parsable from the given textual input port, updating port to point to the first character past the end of the external representation of the object.

If an end of file is encountered in the input before any characters are found that can begin an object, then an end-of-file object is returned. The port remains open, and further attempts to read will also return an end-of-file object. If an end of file is encountered after the beginning of an object’s external representation, but the external representation is incomplete and therefore not parsable, an error that satisfies read-error? is signaled.

Returns the next character available from the textual input port, updating the port to point to the following character. If no more characters are available, an end-of-file value is returned.

The result type is character-or-eof.

Returns the next character available from the textual input port, but without updating the port to point to the following character. If no more characters are available, an end-of-file value is returned.

The result type is character-or-eof.

Note: The value returned by a call to peek-char is the same as the value that would have been returned by a call to read-char with the same port. The only difference is that the very next call to read-char or peek-char on that port will return the value returned by the preceding call to peek-char. In particular, a call to peek-char on an interactive port will hang waiting for input whenever a call to read-char would have hung.

Reads a line of input from the textual input port. The handle-newline parameter determines what is done with terminating end-of-line delimiter. The default, 'trim, ignores the delimiter; 'peek leaves the delimiter in the input stream; 'concat appends the delimiter to the returned value; and 'split returns the delimiter as a second value. You can use the last three options to tell if the string was terminated by end-or-line or by end-of-file. If an end of file is encountered before any end of line is read, but some characters have been read, a string containing those characters is returned. (In this case, 'trim, 'peek, and 'concat have the same result and effect. The 'split case returns two values: The characters read, and the delimiter is an empty string.) If an end of file is encountered before any characters are read, an end-of-file object is returned. For the purpose of this procedure, an end of line consists of either a linefeed character, a carriage return character, or a sequence of a carriage return character followed by a linefeed character.

Returns #t if obj is an end-of-file object, otherwise returns #f.

Performance note: If obj has type character-or-eof, this is compiled as an int comparison with -1.

Returns an end-of-file object.

Returns #t if a character is ready on the textual input port and returns #f otherwise. If char-ready returns #t then the next read-char operation on the given port is guaranteed not to hang. If the port is at end of file then char-ready? returns #t.

Rationale: The char-ready? procedure exists to make it possible for a program to accept characters from interactive ports without getting stuck waiting for input. Any input editors as- sociated with such ports must ensure that characters whose existence has been asserted by char-ready? cannot be removed from the input. If char-ready? were to return #f at end of file, a port at end-of-file would be indistinguishable from an interactive port that has no ready characters.

Reads the next k characters, or as many as are available before the end of file, from the textual input port into a newly allocated string in left-to-right order and returns the string. If no characters are available before the end of file, an end-of-file object is returned.

Returns the next byte available from the binary input port, updating the port to point to the following byte. If no more bytes are available, an end-of-file object is returned.

Returns the next byte available from the binary input port, but without updating the port to point to the following byte. If no more bytes are available, an end-of-file object is returned.

Returns #t if a byte is ready on the binary input port and returns #f otherwise. If u8-ready? returns #t then the next read-u8 operation on the given port is guaranteed not to hang. If the port is at end of file then u8-ready? returns #t.

Reads the next k bytes, or as many as are available before the end of file, from the binary input port into a newly allocated bytevector in left-to-right order and returns the bytevector. If no bytes are available before the end of file, an end-of-file object is returned.

Reads the next end − start bytes, or as many as are available before the end of file, from the binary input port into bytevector in left-to-right order beginning at the start position. If end is not supplied, reads until the end of bytevector has been reached. If start is not supplied, reads beginning at position 0. Returns the number of bytes read. If no bytes are available, an end-of-file object is returned.

Writes a representation of obj to the given textual output port. Strings that appear in the written representation are enclosed in quotation marks, and within those strings backslash and quotation mark characters are escaped by backslashes. Symbols that contain non-ASCII characters are escaped with vertical lines. Character objects are written using the #\ notation.

If obj contains cycles which would cause an infinite loop using the normal written representation, then at least the objects that form part of the cycle must be represented using datum labels. Datum labels must not be used if there are no cycles.

The write-shared procedure is the same as write, except that shared structure must be represented using datum labels for all pairs and vectors that appear more than once in the output.

The write-simple procedure is the same as write, except that shared structure is never represented using datum labels. This can cause write-simple not to terminate if obj contains circular structure.

Writes a representation of obj to the given textual output port. Strings that appear in the written representation are output as if by write-string instead of by write. Symbols are not escaped. Character objects appear in the representation as if written by write-char instead of by write. The display representation of other objects is unspecified.

Writes an end of line to textual output port. This is done using the println method of the Java class java.io.PrintWriter.

Writes the character char (not an external representation of the character) to the given textual output port.

Writes the characters of string from start to end in left-to-right order to the textual output port.

Writes the byte to the given binary output port.

Writes the bytes of bytevector from start to end in left-to-right order to the binary output port.

Forces any pending output on port to be delivered to the output file or device and returns an unspecified value. If the port argument is omitted it defaults to the value returned by (current-output-port). (The name force-output is older, while R6RS added flush-output-port. They have the same effect.)

These are fluid variable whose values are string templates with placeholders similar to printf-style format. The placeholders are expanded (depending on the current state), and the resulting string printed in front of the input line.

The input-prompt1 is used normally. For multi-line input commands (for example if the first line is incomplete), input-prompt1 is used for the first line of each command, while input-prompt2 is used for subsequent “continuation” lines.

The following placeholders are handled:

%%

A literal ‘%’.

%N

The current line number. This is (+ 1 (port-line port)).

%nPc

Insert padding at this possion, repeating the following character c as needed to bring the total number of columns of the prompt to that specified by the digits n.

%Pc

Same as %nPc, but n defaults to the number of columns in the initial prompt from the expansion of input-prompt1. This is only meaningful when expanding input-prompt2 for continuation lines.

%{hidden%}

Same as hidden, but the characters of hidden are assumed to have zero visible width. Can be used for ANSI escape sequences to change color or style:

(set! input-prompt1 "%{\e[48;5;51m%}{Kawa:%N} %{\e[0m%}")

The above changes both the text and the background color (to a pale blue).

%M

Insert a “message” string. Not normally used by Kawa, but supported by JLine.

These variables can be initialized by the command-line arguments console:prompt1=prompt1 and console:prompt2=prompt2, respectively. If these are not specified, languages-specific defaults are used. For example for Scheme the default value of input-prompt1 is "#|kawa:%N|# " and input-prompt2 is "#|$P.%N| ". These have the form of Scheme comments, to make it easier to cut-and-paste.

If input-prompt1 (respectively input-prompt2) does not contain an escape sequence (either "%{ or the escape character "\e") then ANSI escape sequences are added to to highlight the prompt. (Under DomTerm this sets the prompt style, which can be customised with CSS but defaults to a light green background; if using JLine the background is set to light green.)

Set the prompt procedure associated with port to prompter, which must be a one-argument procedure taking an input port, and returning a string. The procedure is called before reading the first line of a command; its return value is used as the first-line prompt.

The prompt procedure can have side effects. In Bash shell terms: It combines the features of PROMPT_COMMAND and PS1.

The initial prompter is default-prompter, which returns the expansion of input-prompt1.

Get the prompt procedure associated with port.

The default prompt procedure. Normally (i.e. when input-port-read-state is a space) returns input-prompt1 after expanding the %-placeholders. Can also expand input-prompt2 when input-port-read-state is not whitespace.

Return the current column number or line number of input-port, using the current input port if none is specified. If the number is unknown, the result is #f. Otherwise, the result is a 0-origin integer - i.e. the first character of the first line is line 0, column 0. (However, when you display a file position, for example in an error message, we recommend you add 1 to get 1-origin integers. This is because lines and column numbers traditionally start with 1, and that is what non-programmers will find most natural.)

Set (0-origin) line number of the current line of port to num.

Get the line number of the current line of port, which must be a (non-binary) input port. The initial line is line 1. Deprecated; replaced by (+ 1 (port-line port)).

Set line number of the current line of port to num. Deprecated; replaced by (set-port-line! port (- num 1)).

Get the column number of the current line of port, which must be a (non-binary) input port. The initial column is column 1. Deprecated; replaced by (+ 1 (port-column port)).

Returns a character indicating the current read state of the port. Returns #\Return if not current doing a read, #\" if reading a string; #\| if reading a comment; #\( if inside a list; and #\Space when otherwise in a read. The result is intended for use by prompt prcedures, and is not necessarily correct except when reading a new-line.

A symbol that controls how read handles letters when reading a symbol. If the first letter is ‘U’, then letters in symbols are upper-cased. If the first letter is ‘D’ or ‘L’, then letters in symbols are down-cased. If the first letter is ‘I’, then the case of letters in symbols is inverted. Otherwise (the default), the letter is not changed. (Letters following a ‘\’ are always unchanged.) The value of symbol-read-case only checked when a reader is created, not each time a symbol is read.

Controls how bytes in external files are converted to/from internal Unicode characters. Can be either a symbol or a boolean. If port-char-encoding is #f, the file is assumed to be a binary file and no conversion is done. Otherwise, the file is a text file. The default is #t, which uses a locale-dependent conversion. If port-char-encoding is a symbol, it must be the name of a character encoding known to Java. For all text files (that is if port-char-encoding is not #f), on input a #\Return character or a #\Return followed by #\Newline are converted into plain #\Newline.

This variable is checked when the file is opened; not when actually reading or writing. Here is an example of how you can safely change the encoding temporarily:

(define (open-binary-input-file name)
  (fluid-let ((port-char-encoding #f)) (open-input-file name)))

The number base (radix) to use by default when printing rational numbers. Must be an integer between 2 and 36, and the default is of course 10. For example setting *print-base* to 16 produces hexadecimal output.

If true, prints an indicator of the radix used when printing rational numbers. If *print-base* is respectively 2, 8, or 16, then #b, #o or #x is written before the number; otherwise #Nr is written, where N is the base. An exception is when *print-base* is 10, in which case a period is written after the number, to match Common Lisp; this may be inappropriate for Scheme, so is likely to change.

The right margin (or line width) to use when pretty-printing.

If this an integer, and the available width is less or equal to this value, then the pretty printer switch to the more miser compact style.

When writing to XML, controls pretty-printing and indentation. If the value is 'always or 'yes force each element to start on a new suitably-indented line. If the value is 'pretty only force new lines for elements that won’t fit completely on a line. The the value is 'no or unset, don’t add extra whitespace.