| get-output-stream-string | Function |
get-output-stream-string string-output-stream → string
string-output-stream — a stream.
string — a string.
Returns a string containing, in order, all the characters that have been output to string-output-stream. This operation clears any characters on string-output-stream, so the string contains only those characters which have been output since the last call to get-output-stream-string or since the creation of the string-output-stream, whichever occurred most recently.
(setq a-stream (make-string-output-stream)
a-string "abcdefghijklm") → "abcdefghijklm"
(write-string a-string a-stream) → "abcdefghijklm"
(get-output-stream-string a-stream) → "abcdefghijklm"
(get-output-stream-string a-stream) → ""The string-output-stream is cleared.
The consequences are undefined if stream-output-string is closed.
The consequences are undefined if string-output-stream is a stream that was not produced by make-string-output-stream. The consequences are undefined if string-output-stream was created implicitly by with-output-to-string or format.