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NAME
In_channel - Input channels.
Module
Module In_channel
Documentation
Module In_channel
: sig end
Input channels.
Since 4.14.0
type t = in_channel
The type of input channel.
type open_flag = open_flag =
| Open_rdonly (* open for reading.
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| Open_wronly (* open for writing.
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| Open_append (* open for appending: always write at end of file.
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| Open_creat (* create the file if it does not exist.
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| Open_trunc (* empty the file if it already exists.
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| Open_excl (* fail if Open_creat and the file already exists.
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| Open_binary (* open in binary mode (no conversion).
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| Open_text (* open in text mode (may perform conversions).
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| Open_nonblock (* open in non-blocking mode.
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Opening modes for In_channel.open_gen .
val stdin : t
The standard input for the process.
val open_bin : string -> t
Open the named file for reading, and return a new input channel on that file, positioned at the beginning
of the file.
val open_text : string -> t
Same as In_channel.open_bin , but the file is opened in text mode, so that newline translation takes
place during reads. On operating systems that do not distinguish between text mode and binary mode, this
function behaves like In_channel.open_bin .
val open_gen : open_flag list -> int -> string -> t
open_gen mode perm filename opens the named file for reading, as described above. The extra arguments
mode and perm specify the opening mode and file permissions. In_channel.open_text and
In_channel.open_bin are special cases of this function.
val with_open_bin : string -> (t -> 'a) -> 'a
with_open_bin fn f opens a channel ic on file fn and returns f
ic . After f returns, either with a value or by raising an exception, ic is guaranteed to be closed.
val with_open_text : string -> (t -> 'a) -> 'a
Like In_channel.with_open_bin , but the channel is opened in text mode (see In_channel.open_text ).
val with_open_gen : open_flag list -> int -> string -> (t -> 'a) -> 'a
Like In_channel.with_open_bin , but can specify the opening mode and file permission, in case the file
must be created (see In_channel.open_gen ).
val seek : t -> int64 -> unit
seek chan pos sets the current reading position to pos for channel chan . This works only for regular
files. On files of other kinds, the behavior is unspecified.
val pos : t -> int64
Return the current reading position for the given channel. For files opened in text mode under Windows,
the returned position is approximate (owing to end-of-line conversion); in particular, saving the current
position with In_channel.pos , then going back to this position using In_channel.seek will not work. For
this programming idiom to work reliably and portably, the file must be opened in binary mode.
val length : t -> int64
Return the size (number of characters) of the regular file on which the given channel is opened. If the
channel is opened on a file that is not a regular file, the result is meaningless. The returned size
does not take into account the end-of-line translations that can be performed when reading from a channel
opened in text mode.
val close : t -> unit
Close the given channel. Input functions raise a Sys_error exception when they are applied to a closed
input channel, except In_channel.close , which does nothing when applied to an already closed channel.
val close_noerr : t -> unit
Same as In_channel.close , but ignore all errors.
val input_char : t -> char option
Read one character from the given input channel. Returns None if there are no more characters to read.
val input_byte : t -> int option
Same as In_channel.input_char , but return the 8-bit integer representing the character. Returns None if
the end of file was reached.
val input_line : t -> string option
input_line ic reads characters from ic until a newline or the end of file is reached. Returns the string
of all characters read, without the newline (if any). Returns None if the end of the file has been
reached. In particular, this will be the case if the last line of input is empty.
A newline is the character \n unless the file is open in text mode and Sys.win32 is true in which case it
is the sequence of characters \r\n .
val input : t -> bytes -> int -> int -> int
input ic buf pos len reads up to len characters from the given channel ic , storing them in byte sequence
buf , starting at character number pos . It returns the actual number of characters read, between 0 and
len (inclusive). A return value of 0 means that the end of file was reached.
Use In_channel.really_input to read exactly len characters.
Raises Invalid_argument if pos and len do not designate a valid range of buf .
val really_input : t -> bytes -> int -> int -> unit option
really_input ic buf pos len reads len characters from channel ic , storing them in byte sequence buf ,
starting at character number pos .
Returns None if the end of file is reached before len characters have been read.
Raises Invalid_argument if pos and len do not designate a valid range of buf .
val really_input_string : t -> int -> string option
really_input_string ic len reads len characters from channel ic and returns them in a new string.
Returns None if the end of file is reached before len characters have been read.
val input_all : t -> string
input_all ic reads all remaining data from ic .
val set_binary_mode : t -> bool -> unit
set_binary_mode ic true sets the channel ic to binary mode: no translations take place during input.
set_binary_mode ic false sets the channel ic to text mode: depending on the operating system, some
translations may take place during input. For instance, under Windows, end-of-lines will be translated
from \r\n to \n .
This function has no effect under operating systems that do not distinguish between text mode and binary
mode.
OCamldoc 2023-10-26 In_channel(3o)