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Skip

Usage

• Skip[stream, type] skips one object of the specified type in an input stream.
• Skip[stream, type, n] skips n objects of the specified type.


Notes

• Skip behaves like Read, except that it returns Null when it succeeds in skipping the specified objects, and $Failed otherwise.
• See notes for Read.
• See Section 2.12.8.
• See also: SetStreamPosition, Find.
• New in Version 2.


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