Extracted from Pike v7.4 release 97 at 2004-08-02.
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Method Stdio.read_file()


Method read_file

string Stdio.read_file(string filename)
string Stdio.read_file(string filename, int start, int len)

Description

Read len lines from a file filename after skipping start lines and return those lines as a string. If both start and len are omitted the whole file is read.

See also

read_bytes() , write_file()