fileOpen

Description

Opens a file in memory so that it may be read from. Note that the file is seen as an octet stream, encoding doesn’t matter from this point of view. File may be read and written at random locations.

Parameters

Return Type

integer

The id of the file that was opened. The id has no meaning beyond the script.

Throws

string

invalid - if the path is invalid
unresolvable - if the file cannot be resolved
cannot_work_on_directory - if the path is a directory, in fact, and not a file
notfound - if the file is not found

Example

Example 1

use "file";

int fid = open(filename); //fileOpen
fileClose(fid);//full name of the routine