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Unit utils

This unit contains a "grab bag" of procedures without a good home, and which don't have to be available by default (as compared to the extras unit).

This unit uses the extras and srfi-13 units.

Executing shell commands with formatstring and error checking

system*

[procedure] (system* FORMATSTRING ARGUMENT1 ...)

Similar to (system (sprintf FORMATSTRING ARGUMENT1 ...)), but signals an error if the invoked program should return a nonzero exit status.

Reading a file's contents

read-all

[procedure] (read-all [FILE-OR-PORT])

If FILE-OR-PORT is a string, then this procedure returns the contents of the file as a string. If FILE-OR-PORT is a port, all remaining input is read and returned as a string. The port is not closed. If no argument is provided, input will be read from the port that is the current value of (current-input-port).

Shell argument quoting

qs

[procedure] (qs STRING [PLATFORM])

Escapes STRING suitably for passing to a shell command on PLATFORM. PLATFORM defaults to the value of (build-platform) and indicates in which style the argument should be quoted. On Windows systems, the string is simply enclosed in double-quote (") characters, on UNIXish systems, characters that would have a special meaning to the shell are escaped using backslash (\).

Dynamic compilation

compile-file

[procedure] (compile-file FILENAME #!key options output-file load)

Compiles the Scheme source file FILENAME into a dynamically loadable library by invoking the csc compiler driver. If the library can be successfully created and load is not given or true, the file is loaded into the current Scheme process. options may be a list of strings which are passed as additional command line options to csc. If output-file is not given, then the compiled file is stored in a temporary location and will be deleted when the process exits successfully. When compilation and loading succeeds, the name of the compiled file is returned.

Notes:

• loading the same compiled file multiple times is only supported on Linux in the moment and should be considered unreliable. For this reason, a new temporary file is created for every invocation of compile-file, unless an explicit output file name is given.
• this procedure is compatible to the scheme-compile-file command in emacs' scheme-mode.

compile-file-options

[parameter] compile-file-options

A parameter that holds a list of default options that should be given to csc after invocation of the compile-file procedure. The initial default options are -scrutinize -O2 -d2.

Scanning through an input port

scan-input-lines

[procedure] (scan-input-lines REGEXP [PORT])

Reads lines from PORT (defaults to the result of (current-input-port)) using read-line and returns the result of (string-search REGEXP LINE), if the match succeeds. If no match could be found, #f is returned.

REGEXP may also be a procedure of one argument which is called for each input line and should return a non-false value on success.

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