1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03020304xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Seek Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="seek"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154367"><bookmark_value>Seek function</bookmark_value> 34</bookmark> 35<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp" name="Seek Function [Runtime]">Seek Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 36<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">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> 37</section> 38<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">For random access files, the Seek function returns the number of the next record to be read.</paragraph> 39<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">For all other files, the function returns the byte position at which the next operation is to occur.</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155854" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">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> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152460" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Syntax:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Seek (FileNumber)</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Return value:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159156" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Long</paragraph> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Parameters:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="11"> 47<emph>FileNumber:</emph> The data channel number used in the Open statement.</paragraph> 48</body> 49</helpdocument> 50