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Get
Syntax
Get(D:DEVICE,N:INT):LIST of INT
Summary
read characters from a device
Description
This function reads N characters from D and returns the list of
their ascii codes.

Example

D := OpenIFile('io.cpkg');  -- open the file 'io.cpkg'
Get(D,10);  -- get the first 10 characters
[45, 45, 32, 105, 111, 100, 101, 118, 46, 112]
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Ascii(It); convert the ascii code to characters
-- iodev.p
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Ascii(Get(D,10));  -- get the next 10 characters and convert
kg : 0.1 :
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Close(D);

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