Simple input and output

In the previous examples, we used the built-in print and say functions to print something to the console (speaking more strictly, to the standard output attached to the program). In this section, you will learn how to perform basic reading from the standard input. This is basically how the program gets what you type onto the console.

To read the input, there are a few functions that you may use directly without loading any modules. They are listed in the following table:

Function	What it does
get	This reads one line from the input and returns it
lines	This returns the list of lines containing the data lines that came from the standard input
slurp	This returns a string that contains the whole input

 

The get and line functions may be used when you need to parse the input data line by line. For example, call get as many times as you need if you know the structure of the input, or create a loop and iterate over the array that is returned by lines.

The slurp function does the job...