Description

Use to write one or more integer values to a file. This command will accept any number of integer arguments, including arrays.

The following list shows the different cast types. Note that data can be lost when casting. 'Signed' means the value can be negative. 'Unsigned' means value will always be positive.

Cast	Description
`"c"`	Writes integer as a signed character, or a signed 8 bit (1 byte) value
`"uc"`	Writes integer as an unsigned character, or an unsigned 8 bit (1 byte) value
`"s"`	Writes integer as a signed short integer, or a signed 16 bit (2 bytes) value
`"us"`	Writes integer as an unsigned short integer, or an unsigned 16 bit (2 bytes) value
`"i"`	Writes integer as a signed integer, or a signed 32 bit (4 bytes) value
`"ui"`	Writes integer as an unsigned integer, or an unsigned 32 bit (4 bytes) value
`"f"`	Writes integer as a floating point value, a 32 bit (4 byte) value

Functional area

Disk I/O

Command syntax

Syntax

writeInt fileID intVal1 [intVal2...] [-cast string]

Arguments

Name	Type	Comments
`int2`	optional int or int array	Command can accept any number of ints/arrays to write to the file
`int1`	int or int array	One or more values to be written to the file
`fileID`	int	ID of file previously opened with fileOpen

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`cast`	1	string	—	Data type to cast to. Possible types are listed above. Note that data can be lost when casting.

Return value

void

Examples

//Write example
int $val = 50;
int $fileID;
int $fileID = `fileOpen "C:/FileTesting.txt" "w"`;

// Write the int value
writeInt $fileID $val;
fileClose $fileID;

Additional information

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