<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************************** * * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. * * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite * * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. * * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. * ************************************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03020302xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Loc Function [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020302.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> <lastedited date="2004-09-01T15:25:02">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> </history> </meta> <body> <section id="loc"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148663"><bookmark_value>Loc function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148663" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020302.xhp" name="Loc Function [Runtime]">Loc Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the current position in an open file.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Loc(FileNumber)</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150440" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> <emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any numeric expression that contains the file number that is set by the Open statement for the respective file.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154320" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">If the Loc function is used for an open random access file, it returns the number of the last record that was last read or written.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151115" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">For a sequential file, the Loc function returns the position in a file divided by 128. For binary files, the position of the last read or written byte is returned.</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err52"/> </body> </helpdocument>