Seek (Statement)statement

Sets the position of the next read/write operation on a file

Syntax

Seek [#]filenum, position

Parameters

Name		Description
`filenum`		file number of an opened a file
`position`		the new position for i/o operations

Description

Sets the position at which the next read or write operation on a file will occur.

The position is given in records if the file was opened in Random access mode, in bytes in any other case. The position is 1 based -- the first record of a file is at position 1.

The Seek function is used to get the position of the next read or write operation.

Remarks

Differences from QB

None

Example

' e.g. if you want to skip to the 100th byte in the file for reading/writing:



Dim f As Long



f = FreeFile

Open "file.ext" For Binary As #f



Seek f, 100



Close #f

Reference

Documented in KeyPgSeekset.html