Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress 4GL Reference

OUTPUT CLOSE statement

Closes the default output destination or the output stream you name with the STREAM keyword in a prior OUTPUT TO statement.

Syntax

OUTPUT [ STREAM stream ] CLOSE

STREAM stream

Specifies the name of a stream. If you do not name a stream, Progress uses the unnamed stream. See the DEFINE STREAM statement reference entry in this book and the chapter on alternate I/O sources in OpenEdge Development: Programming Interfaces for more information on streams.

Example

This procedure sends customer data to a file by using the OUTPUT TO statement. All statements that normally send output to the terminal send output to the file named cust.dat. After all customer data is written to the file, the OUTPUT CLOSE statement resets the output destination, usually the terminal. The final DISPLAY statement displays Finished on the terminal.

r-out.p

OUTPUT TO cust.dat. FOR EACH customer: DISPLAY cust-num name address address2 city state country SKIP(2) WITH 1 COLUMN SIDE-LABELS. END. OUTPUT CLOSE. DISPLAY "Finished".

Notes

The default output destination is the destination that was active when the procedure began. The output destination is usually the terminal unless the current procedure was called by another procedure while a different destination was active.
A form feed (new page) is automatically output when a PAGED output stream is closed.
If the output destination is the Windows clipboard, this statement writes all buffered output data to the clipboard in CF-TEXT format and clears the buffer.
For more information on directing output, see OpenEdge Development: Programming Interfaces .

See also

DEFINE STREAM statement, OUTPUT TO statement