Syntax:

@READLINE(<identifier>)

@READLINE( CONSOLE )

Description:

This function returns the next line of text from the file <identifier> (or from the console, if CONSOLE is specified.) It should therefore only be used to read data where a line feed character is used to indicate the end of a line, as in a standard text file.

Note: It is much faster to load text files into a string list and then read the lines using list functions such as @NEXT, because the file is loaded into memory and read from there instead of being read from disk each time.

OK:

False if an error occurs reading the file (this includes attempts to read past the end of the file.)

Example:

%N = @READLINE(CONSOLE)

WRITE Hello %N!

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