<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>closeOut -- close an output file</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___Closest__Fit.html">next</a> | <a href="_close__In.html">previous</a> | <a href="___Closest__Fit.html">forward</a> | <a href="_close__In.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>closeOut -- close an output file</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><tt>f << closeOut</tt> -- closes the output file <tt>f</tt>.<br/><tt>closeOut f</tt> -- closes the output file <tt>f</tt>.<p/> Any buffered output is first written to the file, and the return value is an integer, normally 0, or -1 on error, or the return status of the child process in case the the file was a pipe.<p/> If the file was open only for output, then <a href="_close.html" title="close a file">close</a> is easier to use and has the same effect.<p/> If the file was open for both input and output, it remains open for input.</div> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2> <p>The object <a href="_close__Out.html" title="close an output file">closeOut</a> is <span>a <a href="___Manipulator.html">manipulator</a></span>.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>