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Reads characters from a file, starting at the current position in the file. (For more information about a file's position, see FPOS.) If FREAD is successful, it returns the text to the cell containing FREAD and set's the file's position to the start of the following line. If the end of the file is reached or if FREAD can't read the file, it returns the #N/A error value. Use FREAD instead of FREADLN when you need to read a specific number of characters from a text file.
Syntax
FREAD(file_num, num_chars)
File_num is the unique ID number of the file you want to read data from. File_num is returned by a previously executed FOPEN function. If file_num is not valid, FREAD returns the #VALUE! error value.
Num_chars specifies how many bytes to read from the file. FREAD can read up to 255 bytes at a time.
Example
The following function reads the next 200 bytes from the open file identified as FileNumber:
FREAD(FileNumber, 200)
Related Functions
FOPEN Opens a file with the type of permission specified
FPOS Sets the position in a text file
FREADLN Reads a line from a text file
FWRITE Writes characters to a text file
List of DDE/External Functions