outstr

VARKON Version 1.15 1997-10-24

outstr - Procedure

Write to a file

Description

Formats and writes a string to an open file or pipe.

Syntax

outstr(f, str, width)

FILE f;

STRING str;

INT width;

Principal parameters

f - The name of a filevariable accociated with a file open for write, append or update (W, A or U)

str - The string to write

Optional parameters

width - Controls the amount of padding. If width is less than the actual space required no padding

   is performed. If width is larger than the space required the result is padded with blanks.

   The sign of width controls weather padding is done on the left side of the result (+) or the

   right side (-). If not specified width is set to zero = no padding.

Examples

outstr(f, "ABCD") = "ABCD"

outstr(f, "ABCD",10) = " ABCD"

outstr(f, "ABCD", -10) = "ABCD "

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f	- The name of a filevariable accociated with a file open for write, append or update (W, A or U)
str	- The string to write

width	- Controls the amount of padding. If width is less than the actual space required no padding
	is performed. If width is larger than the space required the result is padded with blanks.
	The sign of width controls weather padding is done on the left side of the result (+) or the
	right side (-). If not specified width is set to zero = no padding.