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&allocated — cumulative allocation
&ascii — ASCII characters
&clock — time of day
&collections — garbage collections
&cset — all characters
&current — current co-expression
&date — date
&dateline — date and time of day
&digits — digits
&dump — set termination dump
&e — base of natural logarithms
&error — set error conversion
&errornumber — number of last error
&errortext — description of last error
&errorvalue — value causing last error
&errout — standard error output
&fail — failure
&features — implementation features
&file — source file
&host — host system
&input — standard input
&lcase — lowercase letters
&letters — letters
&level — procedure level
&main — main co-expression
&null — null value
&output — standard output
&phi — golden ratio
&pi — pi
&pos — scanning position
&progname — program name
&random : i — random seed
&regions — storage regions
&source — source co-expression
&storage — storage utilization
&subject — subject of scanning
&time — elapsed time
&ucase — uppercase letters
&version — Icon version

Index of Function Types:
affects &pos
character sets
co-expressions
control structures
file processing
generators
infix operations
keywords
lists, sets and tables
math
metadata
output formatting
pattern matching
prefix operations
records
strings
windows and keyboards

Index of Subsystems:
base
digitcnt.icn
SNOBOL4 functions
 
open file
 
Description

f open(s1, s2)
open(s1, s2) produces a file resulting from opening s1 according to options specified in s2, but fails if the file cannot be opened. See Options in the examples.

The default mode is to translate line termination sequences to linefeeds on input and conversely on output. The untranslated mode should be used when reading and writing binary files.
 
Parameters
s1
file path of the file to open
s2
a string of options. See Options in the examples.
returns
a file pointer
 
Defaults
s2
"rt"
 
Errors
103 s1 or s2 is not a string
209 invalid option
 
See Also
 
Examples

Example 1 — Options:
Options are specified as a single string without delimiters:
character  effect
"r"        open for reading
"w"        open for writing
"a"        open for writing in append mode
"b"        open for reading and writing
"p"        open a pipe
"c"        create
"t"        translate line termination sequences to linefeeds
"u"        do not translate line termination sequences to linefeeds