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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-11-21T13·49+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-11-21T13·49+0000
commit06f95dd07ce691a1f12c8ec7fa5ad84858d81cd0 (patch)
treebca2f5bb29b4a6844eb8f35c04d4e9bda7025128 /doc/manual
parentc370755583d7350f4b96136eb0a6a8a7b08551b1 (diff)
* New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/builtins.xml
index b6c886199b5c..4c8e3163b1a8 100644
--- a/doc/manual/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/builtins.xml
@@ -441,6 +441,15 @@ in config.someSetting</programlisting>
   -->
 
   
+  <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.readFile</function>
+  <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Return the contents of the file
+    <replaceable>path</replaceable> as a string.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+  
+  
   <varlistentry><term><function>removeAttrs</function>
   <replaceable>attrs</replaceable> <replaceable>list</replaceable></term>