ftell

Return the current offset within a file.

Syntax

[result =] ftell(file_handle)

Where:

result	specifies a debug variable of type int4 to which the function return value is assigned. If result is not specified, the return value is displayed on the next line of the screen.
file_handle	is the file handle returned from a previous fopen command.

Discussion

The ftell function takes a file that is open for input or output and returns the position in the file.  The return value is -1 if an error occurs.

Example

To determine the size of a file:

Command input:

define int4 hFile = fopen("test.dat", "r")

fseek(hFile, 0, 2)      // seek to end of file

ftell(hFile)

Result:

000079A8H            // file size

Related Topics:

fclose

feof

fgetc

fgets

fopen

fprintf

fputc

fputs

fread

fseek

fwrite