close

close( 
p_port 
) 
=> t

Description

Drains, closes, and frees a port. When a file is closed, it frees the FILE* associated with p_port. Do not use this function on piport, poport, stdin, stdout, and stderr.

Arguments

Value Returned

Examples

p = outfile("~/test/myFile") 
=> port:"~/test/myFile"

close(p)                     
=> t

Related Topics

outfile

infile

drain