Admin Production rocket
Current Publication

ReadChars(Int32,Int32) Method

Reflection Desktop .NET API Guide V17.1
Rocket® Reflection Desktop (formerly a product of Micro Focus or formerly a product of Open Text) documentation that was created prior to Rocket Software's acquisition of certain products from OpenText may contain outdated references to "Micro Focus” or “OpenText”, which are trademarks of OpenText. Rocket Software is not affiliated with Micro Focus or OpenText and has rebranded these products as Rocket® products.
The number of characters to read. If 0 is specified an empty string is returned
Time in seconds to wait for the specified number of characters
ReadChars(Int32,Int32) Method
In This Topic
Reads a specified number of characters from the host.
Syntax

                     
                     
'Declaration
 

                     
                     
Overloads Function ReadChars( _
   ByVal count As Integer, _
   ByVal timeout As Integer _
) As String

                  

                     
                     
'Usage
 

                     
                     
Dim instance As IScreen
Dim count As Integer
Dim timeout As Integer
Dim value As String
 
value = instance.ReadChars(count, timeout)

                  

                     
                     
string ReadChars( 
   int count,
   int timeout
)

                  

Parameters

count
The number of characters to read. If 0 is specified an empty string is returned
timeout
Time in seconds to wait for the specified number of characters

Return Value

a string containing the requested number of characters or all characters received prior to a timeout.
See Also