fgetpos

 

C

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File input/output

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fread
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File positioning
ftell
fgetpos
fseek
fsetpos
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tmpfile
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Defined in header <stdio.h>
int fgetpos( FILE          *stream, fpos_t          *pos );		(until C99)
int fgetpos( FILE *restrict stream, fpos_t *restrict pos );		(since C99)

Obtains the file position indicator for the file stream stream and stores it in pos.

Parameters

stream	-	file stream to examine
pos	-	pointer to a fpos_t object to store the file position indicator to

Return value

​0​ upon success, nonzero value otherwise.

Example

fgetpos with error checking

Run this code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    /* Prepare an array of f-p values. */
    #define SIZE 5
    double A[SIZE] = {1.,2.,3.,4.,5.};
    /* Write array to a file. */
    FILE * fp = fopen("test.bin", "wb");
    fwrite(A,sizeof(double),SIZE,fp);
    fclose (fp);
 
    /* Read the f-p values into array B. */
    double B[SIZE];
    fp = fopen("test.bin","rb");
    fpos_t pos;
    if (fgetpos(fp,&pos) != 0)      /* current position: start of file */
    {
       perror("fgetpos()");
       fprintf(stderr,"fgetpos() failed in file %s at line # %d\n", __FILE__,__LINE__-3);
       exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
 
    int ret_code = fread(B,sizeof(double),1,fp);   /* read one f-p value */
    /* current position: after reading one f-p value */
    printf("%.1f\n", B[0]);   /* print one f-p value */
 
    fsetpos(fp,&pos);   /* reset current position to start of file */
    ret_code = fread(B,sizeof(double),1,fp);   /* reread first f-p value */
    printf("%.1f\n", B[0]);   /* print one f-p value */
 
    return EXIT_SUCCESS; 
}

Output:

1.0
1.0

See also

ftell	returns the current file position indicator (function)
fseek	moves the file position indicator to a specific location in a file (function)
fsetpos	moves the file position indicator to a specific location in a file (function)
C++ documentation for fgetpos