updating oE get_integer16
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:
- 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)
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