write-string

(write-string string &optional stream &key start end)

Writes the raw string contents -- without surrounding quotes and without a trailing newline -- and returns the string: write-line minus the newline. With no stream argument it writes to standard output; given an output stream (a file stream or a with-output-to-string string stream) it writes there instead. The :start/:end keywords bound the written substring (a nil :end means the string's length); the full string is still the return value. A range outside the string (:start below 0, :end past the length, or :start after :end) or a non-nil bound that is not an integer is the same type-error as subseq's, on every backend. A CLOS instance extending rontolisp's Gray output-stream base class also works as the stream -- the write dispatches to rontolisp:stream-write-string, with the bounds checked first and passed as integers. A TCP or TLS socket handle works too: the string's UTF-8 bytes go on the wire immediately, with no trailing newline.

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