## Function: COMMON-LISP:READ-SEQUENCE [![package](https://img.shields.io/badge/Package-COMMON--LISP-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../) [![type](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-Function-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../#function) [![clhs](https://img.shields.io/badge/CLHS-READ--SEQUENCE-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_rd_seq.htm) [![github](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-View_the_source-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999&logo=github)](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/code/stream.lisp/) > Destructively modify SEQ by reading elements from STREAM. > That part of SEQ bounded by START and END is destructively modified by > copying successive elements into it from STREAM. If the end of file > for STREAM is reached before copying all elements of the subsequence, > then the extra elements near the end of sequence are not updated, and > the index of the next element is returned. ### Lambda list ```cl (sb-impl::seq stream &key sb-impl::start sb-impl::end) ```