This method reads data from an input stream and stores the information in the specified location or variable. It returns the total number of characters read for CHARACTER and LONGCHAR data targets, or the total number of bytes read for a MEMPTR target.
Return type: INT64
Access: PUBLIC
Applies to: Progress.IO.InputStream class
ABSTRACT Read( INPUT target AS MEMPTR, INPUT offset AS INT64, INPUT length AS INT64 ) Read( INPUT target AS MEMPTR ) ABSTRACT Read( INPUT delimiter AS CHARACTER, OUTPUT target AS CHARACTER ) ABSTRACT Read( INPUT delimiter AS CHARACTER, OUTPUT target AS LONGCHAR ) |