LOTUSSCRIPT/COM/OLE CLASSES


Open method
Example

Associates a file with a stream.

Defined in

NotesStream

Syntax

flag = notesStream.Open( pathname$ [ , charset$ ] )

Parameters

pathname$


charset$
Return value

flag

Usage

This method creates the file if it does not exist.

When a stream is opened, property values are:


It is recommended that you call Close when you are finished processing the stream.

Valid character sets include: ASCII, Big5, Binary, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, GB2312, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-KR, ISO-8859-1 through ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R, Latin4, Shift_JIS, System, TCVN3, Unicode, Unicode-1-1, US-ASCII, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, Windows-1250 through Windows-1258, and Windows-874. Binary implies byte operations only on the stream. Unicode is the same as UTF-16 and Unicode-1-1 is a compatible subset of UTF-16.

This method fails if:


Language cross-reference

open method in Java Stream class

Example