reading file to list

[Tino Wildenhain]

Xah Lee wrote:
> comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.ruby
> 
...
> OK, I want to create a nested list in Lisp (always of only integers)
> from a text file, such that each line in the text file would be
> represented as a sublist in the 'imported' list.
> 
> example of a file's content
> 
> 3 10 2
> 4 1
> 11 18
> 
> example of programing behavior
> (make-list-from-text "blob.txt") => ((3 10 2) (4 1) (11 18))

> 
> In a show-off context, it can be reduced to by about 50%, but still
> far verbose than ruby or say perl (which is 1 or 2 lines. (python
> would be 3 or 5)).

So? Please count the lines:

[line.strip().split() for line in file("blob.txt")]

HTH
Tino
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