| reads a term from a stream.
read (-Term)
read (+Stream, -Term)
read/1 reads from the current inputstream a single term(Term).
read/2 reads from the given stream(Stream) a single term(Term).
If the end of the stream is reached, Term will be unified with the
atom end_of_file.
Arguments
Stream text input stream
Term term
Examples
?- open('test.data', write, Stream),
print(Stream, [hello(world), '.']),
close(Stream).
?- open('test.data', read, Stream),
read(Stream, Term1),
read(Stream, Term2).
Term1 = hello(world)
Term2 = end_of_file
Standard
These predicates are part of the ISO-Prolog Standard.
See also
current_op/3,
op/3,
parse_atom/2/3,
print/1/2,
println/1/2,
read_term/2/3,
write/1/2,
write_canonical/1/2,
write_term/2/3,
writeq/2.
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