(* SFIO.def provides a String interface to the opening routines of FIO. Copyright (C) 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Gaius Mulley . This file is part of GNU Modula-2. GNU Modula-2 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Modula-2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version 3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and a copy of the GCC Runtime Library Exception along with this program; see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see . *) DEFINITION MODULE SFIO ; FROM DynamicStrings IMPORT String ; FROM FIO IMPORT File ; EXPORT QUALIFIED OpenToRead, OpenToWrite, OpenForRandom, Exists, WriteS, ReadS ; (* Exists - returns TRUE if a file named, fname exists for reading. *) PROCEDURE Exists (fname: String) : BOOLEAN ; (* OpenToRead - attempts to open a file, fname, for reading and it returns this file. The success of this operation can be checked by calling IsNoError. *) PROCEDURE OpenToRead (fname: String) : File ; (* OpenToWrite - attempts to open a file, fname, for write and it returns this file. The success of this operation can be checked by calling IsNoError. *) PROCEDURE OpenToWrite (fname: String) : File ; (* OpenForRandom - attempts to open a file, fname, for random access read or write and it returns this file. The success of this operation can be checked by calling IsNoError. towrite, determines whether the file should be opened for writing or reading. if towrite is TRUE or whether the previous file should be left alone, allowing this descriptor to seek and modify an existing file. *) PROCEDURE OpenForRandom (fname: String; towrite, newfile: BOOLEAN) : File ; (* WriteS - writes a string, s, to, file. It returns the String, s. *) PROCEDURE WriteS (file: File; s: String) : String ; (* ReadS - reads a string, s, from, file. It returns the String, s. It stops reading the string at the end of line or end of file. It consumes the newline at the end of line but does not place this into the returned string. *) PROCEDURE ReadS (file: File) : String ; END SFIO.