fileClose

 

 

Overview

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

Usage

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

Expression:

(fileClose -1)

(fileClose fileID)

(fileClose fileID option)

Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:fileIDWord The file identifier to be closed (returned from a previous call to the fileOpen function), OR the integer constant -1 (indication that ALL open files are to be closed).
Argument:optionWord (Optional) The file close option: 0 = erase file after closing, 1 = don't erase file after closing (default).

Returns:

If the close 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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