Read up to numBytes characters into buffer.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdls_fdstreambuf.h>

virtual
std::streamsize
xsgetn(
    char* buffer,
    std::streamsize numBytes) override;

Description

Read up to the specified numBytes characters from the file descriptor into the specified buffer and return the number of characters successfully read. The behavior is undefined unless buffer is at least numBytes bytes long. Note that on a Windows text file, a `\r ` in the file will be read as ` ` (counting as a single character).

Return Value

the number of characters successfully read

Parameters

Name

Description

buffer

destination for characters read

numBytes

maximum number of characters to read

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