FILE

Synopsis

HELP:   Abbreviation for read.auto(file=...)
TYPE:   STRING
SYNTAX: FILE='str'/STREAM/DUMMY

Description

read.file='name.txt' is an abbreviation for read.auto(file='name.txt') without any further parameters. Please have a look at read.auto() for more information.

read.file use all data format detection capabilities of FLAM to read transparent byte streams or records form a data source, which can be an encoded (e.g. Base64), encrypted (e.g. PGP) and/or compressed (GZIP/BZIP2/XZ) file, a FLAMFILE, other archive or a normal clear data set.

The data stream after I/O and after each conversion can contain several kinds of 4 byte length field formats. This is also detected and the data is interpreted as blocks containing various records for the next layer.

Selections

• STREAM - Read from stdin or write to stdout
• DUMMY - Read EOF or write nothing