Closes the file associated with the specified file number. The file number was assigned to the file with the FileOpen function.
FileClose ( file# )
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. |
Integer. Returns 1 if it succeeds and -1 if an error occurs. If file# is null, FileClose returns null.
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
li_FileNum = FileOpen("EMPLOYEE.DAT")
. . . // Some processing
FileClose(li_FileNum)
