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Solidity Programming Essentials
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Solidity Programming Essentials

by Ritesh Modi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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The send method

The send method is used to send Ether to a contract or to an individually owned account. Take a look at the following code depicting the send method:

<<account>>.send(amount);

The send function provides 2,300 gas as a fixed limit, which cannot be superseded. This is especially important when sending an amount to a contract address. To send an amount to an individually owned account, this amount of gas is enough. The send function returns a boolean true/false as a return value. In this case, an exception is not returned; instead, false is returned from the function. If everything goes right in an execution, true is returned from the function. If send is used along with the contract address, it will invoke the fallback function ...

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