1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir *********************************************************************** 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03020304xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Seek Function [Runtime]</title> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp</filename> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2006-02-08T13:29:32">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="seek"> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154367"><bookmark_value>Seek function</bookmark_value> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152460" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Syntax:</paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Seek (FileNumber)</paragraph> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Return value:</paragraph> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159156" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Long</paragraph> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Parameters:</paragraph> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="11"> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>FileNumber:</emph> The data channel number used in the Open statement.</paragraph> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 63