fbinnumrec

Returns the number of unformatted sequential Fortran records in a binary file.

Prototype

	function fbinnumrec (
		path [1] : string   
	)

	return_val [1] :  integer

Arguments

Pathname of file

Description

This function returns the number of records in a Fortran unformatted sequential binary file.

It was updated in version 4.3.0 in order to allow reads into files bigger than 2 GB. This change allows you to access records that occur past the 2 GB point in the file, but not to read into variables that would be larger than 2 GB.

See Also

isbigendian, setfileoption

Examples

Example 1

Determine the number of records on a file created opening the file via the fortran statement: open(10, "foo.binary", form="unformatted")

   nrec = fbinnumrec("foo.binary")   ; nrec is scalar integer