1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * 14*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * 16*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 22*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * 23*d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 24*d33d0967SAndrew Rist 25*d33d0967SAndrew Rist 26cdf0e10cSrcweir 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03020302xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Loc Function [Runtime]</title> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020302.xhp</filename> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2004-09-01T15:25:02">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="loc"> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148663"><bookmark_value>Loc function</bookmark_value> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the current position in an open file.</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Loc(FileNumber)</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150440" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any numeric expression that contains the file number that is set by the Open statement for the respective file.</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err52"/> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 59