vle-file->list

(vle-file->list filename commentchar)

loads the text lines of specified file 'filename' as a list of strings, ignoring all comment lines as defined by 'commentchar'

Arguments	'filename' name of the file to be loaded 'commentchar' the "comment" character to ignore comment lines
Return	list of file lines; or NIL, if the file is not found or empty
Example	(vle-file->list "MyData.dat" ";") loads all file lines into returned list, and ignores all lines starting with ";" character (omitted)
Alias
Remarks	'filename' is searched in all support pathes, if it does not contain a path; 'commentchar' only used if not NIL; if NIL, all file lines are loaded