Mojo Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Hi guys, I know it's probably a pretty stupid question but I just wanna make sure I get this right. My question is: If I do a FileOpen and the function returns -1, do I still have to FileClose() it again or not? What is your recommended way of doing this? I'm asking, because I think it doesn't necessarily mean that the file could not be opened, instead it could maybe have opened the file but wasn't able to get write access, or something like that. So then it might have an open handle to the file?! Sorry for my not so perfect english ;-) You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln - http://www.ae911truth.org/ - http://www.freedocumentaries.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herewasplato Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) Doh - what MHz said makes much more sense - naturally :-) Edited March 5, 2008 by herewasplato [size="1"][font="Arial"].[u].[/u][/font][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 My question is: If I do a FileOpen and the function returns -1, do I still have to FileClose() it again or not? What is your recommended way of doing this?I am not sure what the "again" is for but if FileOpen returns -1, then you have no handle to use FileClose with.I'm asking, because I think it doesn't necessarily mean that the file could not be opened, instead it could maybe have opened the file but wasn't able to get write access, or something like that. So then it might have an open handle to the file?!FileOpen failed if -1 was returned. If the file is already open, then not much you can do if you do not have a handle to the open file. The only thing you have is a variable that contains the value of -1 and using FileClose on that variable achieves nothing AFAIK.There is no maybe about it, either you get the handle to use FileClose on it or you get a variable with a value of -1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 I am not sure what the "again" is for but if FileOpen returns -1, then you have no handle to use FileClose with.FileOpen failed if -1 was returned. If the file is already open, then not much you can do if you do not have a handle to the open file. The only thing you have is a variable that contains the value of -1 and using FileClose on that variable achieves nothing AFAIK.There is no maybe about it, either you get the handle to use FileClose on it or you get a variable with a value of -1.True true, thanks for your answer.btw. the "again" was like: "You open a file, later you close it again" - Maybe that's a German-English / English-German issue. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln - http://www.ae911truth.org/ - http://www.freedocumentaries.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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