fileClose

 

 

Description

The fileClose function closes a file with the specified fileID {fileID} .

When to use

The fileClose function is used to close a file and optionally erase it after closing. The fileClose function commits any records that were written after the fileOpen and before the fileClose functions.

 

Syntax

(fileClose all:)

(fileClose fileID option)



Name Description AIS Types
fileIDThe symbol constant |all| indicating that all open files are to be closed, or the file identifier returned from a previous call to the fileOpen function.Word
option(Optional) The file close option (0 = erase file after closing, 1 = don't erase file after closing), or (erase: = erase file after closing, noerase: = don't erase file after closing).Word


Returns:

If the save is successful, the Boolean value, true is returned

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

ByteVector Text Integer Boolean

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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addMethod(ShortVector) addMethod(String) addMethod(Structure) addMethod(Symbol)
addMethod(Vector) addMethod(Void) addi(Number) appendWriteln(ByteVector)
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fileResize(String) fileResize(Text) fileSeek(ByteVector) fileSeek(String)
fileSeek(Text) fileWrite(ByteVector) fileWrite(String) fileWrite(Text)
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remove(ObjVector) remove(ShortVector) remove(Structure) remove(Vector)
rename(ObjectRepository) replace(String) rept(String) requestHttp(String)
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vectorSigmoidInnerProduct(NumVector) vectorSineInnerProduct(NumVector) vectorSquareInnerProduct(NumVector) vectorTanInnerProduct(NumVector)
vectorTanhInnerProduct(NumVector) version(Context) writeln(ByteVector) writeln(String)
writeln(Text) year(Date)

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