<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. * * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. * * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed * with this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache * License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . --> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03020304xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Seek Function</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> </history> </meta> <body> <section id="seek"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154367"><bookmark_value>Seek function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <h1 id="hd_id3154367"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp">Seek Function</link></h1> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the position for the next writing or reading in a file that was opened with the open statement.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US">For random access files, the Seek function returns the number of the next record to be read.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US">For all other files, the function returns the byte position at which the next operation is to occur.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155854" xml-lang="en-US">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020103.xhp">Open</link>, <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020305.xhp">Seek</link>.</paragraph> <h2 id="hd_id3152460">Syntax:</h2> <bascode> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US">Seek (FileNumber)</paragraph> </bascode> <h2 id="hd_id3148575">Return value:</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" localize="false" id="par_id3159156" xml-lang="en-US">Long</paragraph> <h2 id="hd_id3149665">Parameters:</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>FileNumber:</emph> The data channel number used in the Open statement.</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>