1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03020302xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Loc Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020302.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-09-01T15:25:02">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="loc"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148663"><bookmark_value>Loc function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the current position in an open file.</paragraph> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Loc(FileNumber)</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150440" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 55<emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any numeric expression that contains the file number that is set by the Open statement for the respective file.</paragraph> 56<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> 57<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> 58<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 59<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 60<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err52"/> 61</body> 62</helpdocument> 63