Pipe.close() | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

Pipe:close() method

Closes the Pipe and the associated process. Any further read/write/readerror operations won't achieve.

Return value

This method returns no value.

Example


local pipe = sys.Pipe("cmd.exe /C SET")

-- list all current environment variables in the env_vars table
sleep(200)
local output = await(pipe:read())
local env_vars = {}

pipe:close()

for var, value in output:gmatch("(%w+)=(.-)\r\n") do
  env_vars[var] = value
    print("Variable `"..var.."` : \t", value)
end