Skips and discards a specified number of bytes in the current input stream. The method returns the number of bytes skipped. It returns 0 if the end of the stream has already been reached.

Return type: INT64

Access: PUBLIC

Applies to: Progress.IO.InputStream class

Syntax

SkipBytes( INPUT n AS INT64 )
n
The number of bytes to be skipped.

Notes

  • This method can be overridden by the derived input stream class to handle the skipping of bytes directly from the derived input stream without calling a Read method.