instance method

StringIO#close

() -> nil

close → nil

ext/stringio/stringio.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE
strio_close(VALUE self)
{
    StringIO(self);
    RBASIC(self)->flags &= ~STRIO_READWRITE;
    return Qnil;
}

Closes self for both reading and writing; returns nil:

Example

strio = StringIO.new
strio.closed? # => false
strio.close   # => nil
strio.closed? # => true
strio.read    # Raises IOError: not opened for reading
strio.write   # Raises IOError: not opened for writing

See also #binmode #closed? .open #closed_read? also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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