mclose

Arguments

fd

a scalar: the fd parameter returned by the function mopen is used as a file descriptor.

err

a scalar: an error indicator.

Description

mclose must be used to close a file opened by mopen. If fd is omitted mclose closes the last opend file.

mclose('all') closes all files opened by file('open',..) or mopen.

Be careful with this use of mclose because when it is used inside a Scilab script file, it also closes the script and Scilab will not execute commands written after mclose('all').

Examples

fd = mopen(TMPDIR + filesep() + 'mclose_tst','wt');
mclose(TMPDIR + filesep() + 'mclose_tst');

fd=mopen('SCI/etc/scilab.start','r')
mgetl(fd,10)
mclose(fd)

See also

• meof — checks if end of file has been reached
• mfprintf — converts, formats, and writes data to a file
• fprintfMat — writes a matrix in a file
• mfscanf — reads input from the stream pointer stream (interface to the C fscanf function)
• fscanfMat — reads a matrix from a text file
• mget — reads byte or word in a given binary format and converts to a double type
• mgetl — reads lines from an text file
• mgetstr — reads a character string from a file
• mopen — opens a file in Scilab
• mprintf — converts, formats, and writes data to the main scilab window
• mput — writes byte or word in a given binary format
• mputl — writes strings in a text file
• mputstr — writes a character string in a file
• mseek — sets current position in a binary file
• mtell — Returns the offset of the current byte relative to the beginning of a file
• file — file management
• mdelete — deletes file(s)