RGtk2 (version 2.20.31)

gDataInputStreamReadUntil: gDataInputStreamReadUntil

Description

Reads a string from the data input stream, up to the first occurrence of any of the stop characters.

Usage

gDataInputStreamReadUntil(object, stop.chars, cancellable = NULL,  .errwarn = TRUE)

Arguments

object

a given GDataInputStream.

stop.chars

characters to terminate the read.

cancellable

optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

.errwarn

Whether to issue a warning on error or fail silently

Value

A list containing the following elements:

retval

[char] a string with the data that was read before encountering any of the stop characters. Set length to a numeric to get the length of the string. This function will return NULL on an error.

length

a numeric to get the length of the data read in.

error

GError for error reporting.