6.1.2.5.1.10 Seek

Function Declaration

 Function Seek(FileNumber As Integer) As Long 

Parameter	Description
FileNumber	An Integer data value that is a valid file number (section 5.4.5).

 

Runtime Semantics.

§ Returns a Long specifying the current read/write position (in other words, the file-current file-pointer-position (section 5.4.5)) within a file opened using the Open statement. This value will be between 1 and 2,147,483,647 (equivalent to 2^31 - 1), inclusive.

§ The following describes the return values for each file access mode:

Mode	Return Value
Random	Number of the next record read or written.
Binary, Output, Append, Input	Byte position at which the next operation takes place. The first byte in a file is at position 1, the second byte is at position 2, and so on.