This implements words for interfacing with the POSIX file I/O words if you are using an interface supporting them. All of these are in the `file:` namespace. These are pretty much direct wrappers for fopen(), fclose(), etc. First up, constants for the file modes. | # | Used For | | - | ------------------ | | R | Mode for READING | | W | Mode for WRITING | | A | Mode for APPENDING | ~~~ #0 'file:R const #1 'file:W const #2 'file:A const #3 'file:R+ const ~~~ For opening a file, provide the file name and mode. This will return a number identifying the file handle. ~~~ :file:open (sm-h) `118 ; ~~~ Given a file handle, close the file. ~~~ :file:close (h-) `119 ; ~~~ Given a file handle, read a character. ~~~ :file:read (h-c) `120 ; ~~~ Write a character to an open file. ~~~ :file:write (ch-) `121 ; ~~~ Return the current pointer within a file. ~~~ :file:tell (h-n) `122 ; ~~~ Move the file pointer to the specified location. ~~~ :file:seek (nh-) `123 ; ~~~ Return the size of the opened file. ~~~ :file:size (h-n) `124 ; ~~~ Given a file name, delete the file. ~~~ :file:delete (s-) `125 ; ~~~ Flush pending writes to disk. ~~~ :file:flush (f-) `126 ; ~~~ Given a file name, return `TRUE` if it exists or `FALSE` otherwise. ~~~ :file:exists? (s-f) file:R file:open dup n:-zero? [ file:close TRUE ] [ drop FALSE ] choose ; ~~~ With that out of the way, we can begin building higher level functionality. The first of these reads a line from the file. This is read to `here`; move it somewhere safe if you need to keep it around. The second goes with it. The `for-each-line` word will invoke a combinator once for each line in a file. This makes some things trivial. E.g., a simple 'cat' implementation could be as simple as: 'filename [ puts nl ] file:for-each-line ~~~ {{ 'FID var 'FSize var 'Action var 'Buffer var :-eof? (-f) @FID file:tell @FSize lt? ; :preserve (q-) &FID [ &FSize [ call ] v:preserve ] v:preserve ; ---reveal--- :file:read-line (f-s) !FID [ here dup !Buffer buffer:set [ @FID file:read dup buffer:add [ ASCII:CR eq? ] [ ASCII:LF eq? ] [ ASCII:NUL eq? ] tri or or ] until buffer:get drop ] buffer:preserve @Buffer ; :file:for-each-line (sq-) [ !Action file:R file:open !FID @FID file:size !FSize [ @FID file:read-line @Action call -eof? ] while @FID file:close ] preserve ; }} ~~~ `file:slurp` reads a file into a buffer. ~~~ {{ 'FID var 'Size var ---reveal--- :file:slurp (as-) [ file:R file:open !FID buffer:set @FID file:size !Size @Size [ @FID file:read buffer:add ] times @FID file:close ] buffer:preserve ; }} ~~~