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Rokia <Rokiadd@yahoo.com.cn.discuss> writes:

> what I want to do is reading a file's content into a string
> variable. like this.
>
> (setq dddstring (foo-read-file "dd.txt"))
> (prin1 dddstring)

(setq dddstring (with-temp-buffer
		  (insert-file-contents "dd.txt")
		  (buffer-string)))