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="textsbasicshared03020302xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Loc Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020302.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="loc"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148663"> 34<bookmark_value>Loc function</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148663" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020302.xhp" name="Loc Function [Runtime]">Loc Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the current position in an open file.</paragraph> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Loc(FileNumber)</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150440" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Long</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any numeric expression that contains the file number that is set by the Open statement for the respective file.</paragraph> 45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154320" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151115" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 47<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 48<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 49<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err52"/> 50</body> 51</helpdocument> 52