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PeekWord()

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Retrieve the value of one or more WORDs from the memory buffer pointed by <pMem> starting at the position <nShift>.

 

Syntax:

PeekWord(<pMem>,[[@]<nShift>]) -> <nWord>

PeekWord(<pMem>,[[@]<nShift>], <nItems>) -> <aWords>

 

Parameters:

<pMem>

Base pointer to the memory buffer.

 

<nShift>

Zero based starting position within <pMem>. Is this parameter is passed by reference will be increased with the number of bytes retrieved, to reuse it in subsequent calls to Peek...() functions.

 

<nItems>

Number of WORD values to read and store as numeric elements of the returned array.

 

Return Value:

Depending on the syntax used PeekDWord() can return the following values:

<nWordValue> Numeric value of the WORD pointed by <pMem> + <nShift>
<aWords>     Array of <nItems> elements containing the retrieved WORDs.