fileOpen

Owned by Jonathan Muse
Last updated: Nov 19, 2024
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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.

Error Handling

Throws String

Errors:

  • "invalid": if the path is invalid

  • "cannot_work_on_directory": if the path is a directory, in fact, and not a file

  • "unresolvable": if the file cannot be resolved

  • "notfound": if the file is not found

Example

Example 1

use "file"; int fid = open(filename); //fileOpen fileClose(fid);//full name of the function

See also

Peacock