fileread --Operation, one input. Abbreviation: fird The input must be a file descriptor, previously output by openread. The procedure reads one line from the file. The output is the line, in the form of a list. (That is, the output is the file line as if enclosed in square brackets in a program.) If the end of the file has been reached, the output is the empty word. If the file line contains mismatched brackets, trouble may result.