Extracted from Pike v7.6 release 61 at 2005-12-30.
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Method Stdio.File()->seek()


Method seek

int seek(int pos)
int seek(int unit, int mult)
int seek(int unit, int mult, int add)

Description

Seek to a specified offset in a file.

If mult or add are specified, pos will be calculated as pos  = unit *mult  + add .

If pos is negative it will be relative to the start of the file, otherwise it will be an absolute offset from the start of the file.

Returns

Returns the new offset, or -1 on failure.

Note

The arguments mult and add are considered obsolete, and should not be used.

See also

tell()