chars >>-chars------------------------------------------------------->< Returns the total number of characters remaining in the
input stream.
The count includes any line separator characters, if these are defined
for the stream. For persistent the count is the count of characters
from the current read position. (See
for a discussion
of Rexx input and output.) The total number of characters remaining cannot
be determined for some streams (for example, STDIN). For these streams. the
CHARS method returns |