OpenEuphoria

get_integer16

include io.e 
namespace io 
public function get_integer16(integer fh) 

reads the next two bytes from a file and returns them as a single integer.

Parameters:

1. fh : an integer, the handle to an open file to read from.

Returns:

An integer, made of the bytes that could be read from the file. When an end of file is encountered, it returns -1.

Comments:

• This function is normally used with files opened in binary mode, "rb".

Example 1:

 
integer fn 
fn = open("temp", "rb")  -- an existing file 
 
atom file_type_code 
file_type_code = get_integer16(fn) 

See Also:

getc, gets, get_bytes, get_dstring