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CLOSE
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement closing one or several files and/or devices for input/output.
Syntax CLOSE[[#] [, [#] ...]]
# optionally indicates that whatever follows is a number.
is the number assigned to a file or device when it was
OPENed.
Remarks This statement revokes OPEN. Only files or devices, which already have
been OPENed, can be CLOSEd.
A CLOSE statement for a file or device OPENed for sequential output entails
that the data in the buffer will be written to the file/device in question
automatically before the channel is closed.
When a file OPENed for random access is CLOSEd, all its FIELD
definitions will be lost.
END, NEW and RUN will also close all open files and devices.
Examples This statement closes all open files and devices:
200 CLOSE
A number of files or devices (No. 1–4) can be closed simultaneously using any
of the following types of statement:
200 CLOSE 1,2,3,4
or
200 CLOSE #1,#2,#3,#4
or
200 CLOSE 1,2,#3,4
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