On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 21, 10:11 pm, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> (print "Enter your name: ") >> (flush) >> (def nm (read-line)) >> (newline) >> (println "Your name is" nm) >> >> The read-line throws java.lang.ClassCastException: >> clojure.lang.LineNumberingPushbackReader. >> Should it do that? I just want to read from stdin. > > You could try getting a BufferedReader from System/in: > > (binding [*in* (java.io.BufferedReader. > (java.io.InputStreamReader. System/in))] > (read-line)) > > But it's probably simpler to write: > > (.readLine *in*)
Thanks the suggestion. That works! However, it seems to me that (read-line) should do the same thing. Is there a reason it doesn't? -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
