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Re: fseek

From Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: fseek
Date 2012-07-26 23:15 -0500
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cartec69@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:22:22 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> l=fseek(fp,0,SEEK_SET);
>
> You are instructing the file (fp) to seek to a position 0 bytes away
> from the current position (SEEK_SET).


SEET_SET is relative to the beginning of the file. SEEK_CUR is relative
to the current position. SEEK_END is relative to the end.

  It's effectively a no-op that
> returns the current file position, which will always be zero since
> you've just opened the file and done nothing with it. If the file
> size is non-zero, the while loop will never terminate.
>

That's true.

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Les Cargill

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fseek Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> - 2012-07-26 19:22 -0700
  Re: fseek cartec69@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 20:46 -0700
    Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-26 23:15 -0500
  Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-26 23:13 -0500
    Re: fseek James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-27 07:20 -0400
      Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-27 12:52 -0500
        Re: fseek Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-07-27 16:11 -0700
          Re: fseek Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-07-27 16:54 -0700
            Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-27 23:10 -0500
              Re: fseek James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-28 11:25 -0400
              Re: fseek Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-28 17:02 +0100
                Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-28 11:39 -0500
                Re: fseek Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-28 17:58 +0100
                Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-28 16:07 -0500
                Re: fseek Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-28 22:30 +0100
  Re: fseek John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-07-27 05:26 +0000
  Re: fseek gordonb.rclzu@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-07-27 12:30 -0500
    Re: fseek Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> - 2012-07-27 15:36 -0700
    Re: fseek Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> - 2012-07-27 15:36 -0700

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