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; specify NIL for "no comment character"

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


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