7 Input and Output

A Scheme port represents an input or output stream, such as a file, a terminal, a TCP connection, or an in-memory string. More specifically, an input port represents a stream from which a program can read data, and an output port represents a stream for writing data.

7.1 Varieties of Ports

7.2 Default Ports

7.3 Reading and Writing Scheme Data

7.3.1 Serialization

7.4 Bytes versus Characters

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1	Welcome to PLT Scheme
2	Scheme Essentials
3	Built-In Datatypes
4	Expressions and Definitions
5	Programmer-Defined Datatypes
6	Modules
7	Input and Output
8	Contracts
9	Classes and Objects
10	Exceptions and Control
11	Iterations and Comprehensions
12	Regular-Expression Matching (Regexps)
13	Pattern Matching
14	Quasiquoting
15	Units (Higher-Order Modules)
16	Threads
17	Syntactic Extension (Macros)
18	Reflection and Dynamic Evaluation
19	Reader Extension
20	Security
21	Memory Management
22	Performance
23	Foreign-Function Interface (FFI)
24	Scripts
25	Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
26	More Tools
	Index