I am new to to guile and scheme and what I am trying to do right now is take a scheme file (file.scm) and load it up into a variable so I will be able to parse it, and I am having trouble finding how to do this anywhere.
What I have right now is
(define var (load "file.scm")) ; loads file scheme
but I am unsure how to start reading the lines.
load parses and runs the scheme code in a file. If you just want to read a file, use open-input-file.
(define file (open-input-file "file address here"))
(display (read-line file))
If you just want to read an entire file as a string, there's a function for that in the textual-ports module. You'd use it something like:
(define contents (call-with-input-file "file.txt" get-string-all))
(You can use call-with-input-file and with-input-from-file to avoid having to manually open and close a file port, which is handy)
