clojure.core/load-string

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 3 Runnable: 0

([s])

Sequentially read and evaluate the set of forms contained in the string

Examples

by Dimagog on 2015-02-04 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

(load-string "(def x 1)") ;; => #'user/x x ;; => 1

by bfontaine on 2018-04-03 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; Don’t use this function on untrusted input; it can have unpleasant ;; side-effects. (load-string "(clojure.java.io/delete-file \"my-important-file\")") ;; => true

by reborg on 2019-01-02 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; Differently from the equivalent "(eval (read-string x))", "load-string" keeps ;; track of line numbers: (def s "\n\n\n(def c :line4)") (:line (meta (load-string s))) ;; 4 (:line (meta (eval (read-string s)))) ;; 1

See also

• clojure.core/read-string (4)
• clojure.core/load-file (0)
• clojure.core/load (0)

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