Varkon MBS Programmers manual

instr - Function

Description

Reads a string of characters from an open file or pipe. instr() reads as many characters as specified or until end of line.

  s:=instr(f, width);

  string s;
  file   f;
  int    width;

f	- The name of a filevariable associated with a file open for read or update (R or U)

width

- The number of characters to read.

The STRING read.