Openfile Function

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This openfile[n,a] function will open the file of name n with mode of a.

Pass: The name of the file to open type String and mode type String
Returns:A file handle of type File

Mode	Description	Starts
r	Open for reading	Beginning
w	Open for writing (create if not exist)	Beginning
a	Open for appending (create if not exist)	End
r+	Open for reading and writing	Beginning
w+	Open for reading and writing, deletes contents and overwrites the file	Beginning
a+	Open for reading and writing (append if file exists)	End

Adding b to the mode will expect that the file is a binary one, without it is expected that the file is a text file.

Examples

var f:=openfile["myfile.txt","r"];
closefile[f];

Last Modified: August 2008