Pike v8.1 release 6

Method System.Memory()->pwrite()


Method pwrite

int pwrite(int(0..) pos, string data)
int pwrite16(int(0..) pos, string data)
int pwrite32(int(0..) pos, string data)
int pwrite16i(int(0..) pos, string data)
int pwrite32i(int(0..) pos, string data)

Description

Write a string to the memory (and to the file, if it's mmap()ed). The 16 and 32 variants writes widestrings, 16 or 32 bits (2 or 4 bytes) wide, the 'i' variants in intel byteorder, the other in network byteorder.

returns the number of bytes (not characters) written