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File

inherits Object

Enum - FOPEN

• READ_ONLY
• READ_WRITE
• APPEND
• BINARY

methods

• close() closes the file
• write(value) writes the value to the file
• read() reads the entire content of the file into a String and return it
• sync() calls the system call fsync to synchronize the filesystem into which the file is written
• flush() calls the system call fflush to ensure the file buffers are written to the physical media

static methods

• open(path, flags) opens a file with an FOPEN flag optionally bitwise-or’d with FOPEN.BINARY (binary is not implemented correctly and will still attempt to return a string)
• exists?(path) returns a Boolean value if the current process can see the existence of the path, per the rules of the OS/filesystem
• file?(path) returns a Boolean if the given path is a regular file
• read_all_lines(path) opens the path for reading as text, returning a List of the individual lines, closing the file when finished
• delete(path) deletes the file at the path
• join_path(path, [components]*) joins the path and the following path components with the OS-dependent path separator and returns a string representation of it