C Functions

_CP_open

_CP_open is equivalent to the open string1,string2 to fd BASIC statement.

Syntax

int _CP_open(int* fd, CPSTR* string1, CPSTR* string2)

Upon successful return, the first parameter is a pointer to an integer file descriptor that can be passed to other file system calls.


`string1`	Should be dict or data, or can be passed as _CP_str_null.
`string2`	Should be the file name.

This function returns -1 if an error occurs. The error code is contained in _CP_errno.

CPSTR * s = _CP_mkstr("myfile");
int f;
 
_CP_open(&f,_CP_str_null,s);
_CP_clearfile(f);
_CP_close(f);

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