FileClose PowerScript function

Description

Closes the file associated with the specified file number.
The file number was assigned to the file with the FileOpen function.

Syntax

<span>FileClose</span> ( <span>file#</span> )

1	<span>FileClose</span> ( <span>file#</span> )

Argument	Description
file#	The integer assigned to the file you want to close. The FileOpen function returns the file number when it opens the file.

Return Values

Integer. Returns 1 if it succeeds and
-1 if an error occurs. If file# is null, FileClose returns null.

Usage

The file is saved in the encoding format in which it was opened.

Examples

These statements open and then close the file EMPLOYEE.DAT.
The variable li_FileNum stores the
number assigned to the file when FileOpen opens
the file. FileClose uses that number to close
the file:

integer li_FileNum

1	integer li_FileNum

li_FileNum = FileOpen("EMPLOYEE.DAT")

1	li_FileNum = FileOpen("EMPLOYEE.DAT")

. . . // Some processing

1	. . . // Some processing

<span>FileClose</span>(li_FileNum)

1	<span>FileClose</span>(li_FileNum)

August 19, 2023

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