This is a WG2 proposal for a (scheme files advanced) library providing R6RS-equivalent file I/O operations in an upward compatible way, with the following exceptions:
The procedures open-input-file, open-binary-input-file, open-output-file, open-binary-output-file, with-input-from-file, with-output-from-file, call-with-input-file, and call-with-output-file are the same as in the (scheme files) library, except that they accept settings lists as well as filenames. Settings lists allow various features of the port to be set when it is opened; see SettingsListsCowan for details.
The procedures file-exists? and delete-file are the same as in the (scheme files) library.
(port-position port)
Returns the current position of port. For a binary port, returns the index of the position at which the next byte would be read from or written to the port as an non-negative exact integer. For a textual port, returns a value of some implementation-dependent type representing the port’s position; this value may be useful only as the position argument to set-port-position!, if the latter is supported on the port.
(can-get-port-position? port)
Returns #t if the port supports the port-position operation, and #f otherwise.
(set-port-position! port position)
Changes the current position of port. If port is a binary port, and position is a non-negative exact integer object, it is used as the index of the position at which the next byte will be read from or written to the port. If port is a textual port, and position is the return value of a preceding call to port-position on port, then the next character will be read or written from that position. If port is a binary output port and the position is beyond the current end of the data, set-port-position! will succeed, but the contents of any intervening positions are unspecified.
Calling this procedure on port resets the buffer state, allowing a binary operation to follow even if the previous operation was textual, an input operation to follow even if the previous operation was an output, or an output operation to follow even if the previous operation was an input.
(can-set-port-position? port)
Returns #t if the port supports the set-port-position! operation, and #f otherwise.
(port-settings port)
Returns an approximation to the settings list used to create port. The order of keys may not be the same, some keys may be omitted if they have no effect on the implementation or if they explicitly specify the implementation default, and some values may be different if they have the same effect on the implementation. If no settings list was used, the list (path filename) is returned.
(binary-port-eof? port)
Returns #t if the next attempt to read a byte from port would return an eof-object, and #f otherwise.
(textual-port-eof? port)
Returns #t if the next attempt to read a character from port would return an eof-object, and #f otherwise.
(read-string! string [ port [ start [ end ] ] ] )
Reads the next end − start characters, or as many as are available before the end of file, from the binary input port into string in left-to-right order beginning at the start position. If end is not supplied, reads until the end of string has been reached. If start is not supplied, reads beginning at position 0. Returns the number of characters read. If no characters are available, an end-of-file object is returned.
(read-lines [ input-port ])
Read all remaining characters in input-port as if by read-line, and return a list of strings representing the lines.
(read-all-bytes [port])
Returns a bytevector consisting of all the bytes that can be read from port before an eof-object is returned, or an eof-object if there are none. The default port is the value of (current-input-port).
(read-all-chars [ port ])
Returns a string consisting of all the characters that can be read from port before an eof-object is returned, or an eof-object if there are none. The default port is the value of (current-input-port).
(read-all [ port ])
Returns a list consisting of all the Scheme objects that can be read from port (as if by read) before an eof-object is returned, or an eof-object if there are none. The default port is the value of (current-input-port).
(write-line string [ port ])
Write string to port as if by write-string, then write a newline to port as if by newline.
(string->bytevector string [ settings-list [ start [ end ] ] ] )
Converts string from start to end to a bytevector using the keys encoding, newline, encoding-error, and possibly other implementation-specific keys in settings-list, and returns the string.
(bytevector->string bytevector [ settings-list [ start [ end ] ] ] )
Converts bytevector from start to end to a string using the keys encoding, newline, encoding-error, and possibly other implementation-specific keys in settings-list, and returns the bytevector.
(rename-file oldname newname)
Renames a file named oldname to be named newname. Returns an unspecified value if it succeeds; otherwise, an error satisfying file-error? is raised.