OPEN

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• Last revised: 2018-03-12

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Opens a disk file for reading or writing using file operations

Syntax

Open filename For Input [encoding_type] [lock_type] As [#]filenumber
Open filename For Output [encoding_type] [lock_type] As [#]filenumber
Open filename For Append [encoding_type] [lock_type] As [#]filenumber

Open filename For Binary [access_type] [lock_type] As [#]filenumber
Open filename For Random [access_type] [lock_type] As [#]filenumber [Len = record_length]

Usage

` result = Open( filename[,] For {Input|Output|Append}[,] As filenumber )

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