1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 41ca2cdb3Smseidel * 5d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 121ca2cdb3Smseidel * 13d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 141ca2cdb3Smseidel * 15d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 211ca2cdb3Smseidel * 22d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23d33d0967SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03020304xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Seek Function [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="seek"> 338b0727e7Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154367"> 348b0727e7Smseidel<bookmark_value>Seek function</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp" name="Seek Function [Runtime]">Seek Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Returns the position for the next writing or reading in a file that was opened with the open statement.<comment>UFI: see #61750</comment></paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">For random access files, the Seek function returns the number of the next record to be read.</paragraph> 40*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">For all other files, the function returns the byte position at which the next operation is to occur.</paragraph> 41*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155854" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020103.xhp" name="Open">Open</link>, <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020305.xhp" name="Seek">Seek</link>.</paragraph> 42*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152460" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 43*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Seek (FileNumber)</paragraph> 44*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 45*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159156" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Long</paragraph> 46*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 47*8c57a15aSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG"><emph>FileNumber:</emph> The data channel number used in the Open statement.</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 50