Subject: Re: READ-LINE From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/05/05 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3134911730676487@naggum.no> * "J.L. Perez-de-la-Cruz" <cruz@apolo.lcc.uma.es> | That's exactly what happens. then that's the expected and correct behavior. if you don't want this behavior, supply READ-LINE with a value that you can check against to see that you have hit the end of the file. I tend to use the keywof :EOF when dealing with characters or strings. #:Erik