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Synopsis

pclose int

pclose is NOT undoable, NOT queryable, and NOT editable.

This command closes a pipe opened with popen and returns zero on success or not zero if an error occurred.

Return value

int Error code

Related

fclose, feof, fflush, fgetline, fgetword, fopen, fprint, fread, frewind, fwrite, popen

MEL examples

// Unix specific example.  Note: if you really want to get a directory
// listing, please use the "getFileList" command instead.  This is just
// used as a simple example.
//
$pipe = popen( "ls -1", "r" );
string $dirList[];
while ( !feof( $pipe ) ) {
    $dirList[size( $dirList )] = fgetline( $pipe );
}
pclose( $pipe );
// Windows specific example.  Note: if you really want to get a directory
// listing, please use the "getFileList" command instead.  This is just
// used as a simple example.
//
$pipe = popen( "DIR /B", "r" );
string $dirList[];
while ( !feof( $pipe ) ) {
    $dirList[size( $dirList )] = fgetline( $pipe );
}
pclose( $pipe );