A call to charout (or lineout) with no arguments sort of became the idiom for 'Hard Close ["I am done with this file/stream"]' so, yes, sounds like not ideal behaviour. In any case, charout and lineout with no args should behave identically. Mike
_____ From: Erich Steinböck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 August 2016 10:42 To: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List Subject: [Oorexx-devel] CHAROUT() w/o args will close R/W, but not R/O file We have an open [documentation:200] <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/documentation/200/> bug identifying a quirk with CHAROUT(), which is supposed to close a file, if neither string nor start arg is given. But as you can see from below test case, CHAROUT() will only close the file if it was opened in R/W mode; it will raise NOTREADY and not close a file if it was opened as R/O. (The equivalent .Stream methods show the same issue as above). Is this behavior intended, and as such we should document it? Or is this an interpreter bug? call on notready f = "\temp\inputfile.txt" say "open" stream(f, "c", "open") --> open READY: say "charout" charout(f) --> charout 0 say "close" stream(f, "c", "close") --> close say "open" stream(f, "c", "open read") --> open READY: say "charout" charout(f) --> charout 0 --> notready raised say "close" stream(f, "c", "close") --> close READY: exit notready: say "notready raised" return
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