gets


Description:

public int gets (char[] buf, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error

Read a line of characters up to the next newline character or buf.length-1 characters.

If the newline character is encountered, then it will be included in the buffer buf. The buffer will be null terminated.

Parameters:

this

a StreamBuffer object

buf

Memory to write the string to.

cancellable

optional Cancellable object, or null

max

Maxmimum number of characters to store.

Returns:

the number of characters read, or 0 for end of file, and -1 on error.