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Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists
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Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

by Perry Cook, Ajay Kapur, Spencer Salazar, Ge Wang
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
9h 55m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix E. File I/O

Like all software, ChucK programs often need a way to save data for when they stop running and to reload that data when they resume running. They also need a way to read data generated by other programs or written manually by a human and to output data that can be used by another program or examined by a human. If you think this sounds like a good use for files, then you’re correct. Files are the backbone of any complex software ecosystem, and naturally ChucK provides several easy-to-use mechanisms to work with them.

E.1. File basics

The FileIO class is ChucK’s primary mechanism for interacting with files, providing a number of standard mechanisms for file input and output. Each instance of FileIO corresponds to a single ...

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