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fclose

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fclose — Closes an open file pointer

bool fclose ( resource $handle )

The file pointed to by handle is closed.

handle: The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen().

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Example #1 A simple fclose() example


<?php



$handle = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');



fclose($handle);



?>