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Bridge : Console Class

available()

Description

Get the number of bytes (characters) available for reading from the Console. This is data that's already arrived and stored in the receive buffer. available() inherits from the Stream utility class.

Syntax

  • Console.available()

Parameters

none

Returns

the number of bytes available to read

Example

See also


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