Guile Reference Manual: Input and Output

Warning: This is the manual of the legacy Guile 2.0 series. You may want to read the manual of the current stable series instead.

• Ports: The idea of the port abstraction.

• Reading: Procedures for reading from a port.

• Writing: Procedures for writing to a port.

• Closing: Procedures to close a port.

• Random Access: Moving around a random access port.

• Line/Delimited: Read and write lines or delimited text.

• Block Reading and Writing: Reading and writing blocks of text.

• Default Ports: Defaults for input, output and errors.

• Port Types: Types of port and how to make them.

• R6RS I/O Ports: The R6RS port API.

• I/O Extensions: Using and extending ports in C.

• BOM Handling: Handling of Unicode byte order marks.