Close

Closes an open file.

Declaration

procedure Close(var F);

Target

Windows, Real, Protected

Remarks

F is a file variable of any file type previously opened with Reset, Rewrite, or Append. The external file associated with F is completely updated and then closed, freeing its DOS file handle for reuse.

With {$I-}, IOResult returns zero if the operation was successful. Otherwise, it returns a nonzero error code.

See Also

Append

Assign

Reset

Rewrite

Sample Code

{Close.PAS}
{Sample code for the Close procedure.}

var F: file;
begin
  Assign(F, '\AUTOEXEC.BAT'); { open file }
  Reset(F, 1);
  Writeln('File size = ', FileSize(F));
  Close(F);   { Close file }
end.