read-contents ( -- seq )
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Vocabulary
io

Inputs
None

Outputs

seq	a string or a byte-array

Word description
Reads all elements in the input-stream until the stream is exhausted. The type of the sequence depends on the stream's element type.

Errors
Throws an error if the I/O operation fails.

Definition

USING: namespaces ;

IN: io

: read-contents ( -- seq ) input-stream get stream-contents
    ; inline