Seek Statement

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Seek (Statement)

Sets the 1-based position of the next read or write: bytes, or records for Random.

Syntax

Seek [#]filenum, position

Parameters

• filenum
• position

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

See also

• Seek (Function)
• Open

Examples

' 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

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Category: File I/O Functions
Kind: statement

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