file_seek question

[sandyrepope]

Situation is: a file is opened binary. file_seek is used to set the file pointer to the 14th byte in the file. My question is: will the next read get the 14th byte or the next one which would be the 15th byte?

Thanks
Sandy

[Michael Clease]

When you File_seek and then File_Get it reads from the seek position not the next character.

try this

Make a text file containing the string 1234567890ABCDEF



'
' Test.txt = 1234567890ABCDEF
'
'
USES "FILE"

DIM FileHandle as DWORD
DIM FileName as STRING
DIM Char as STRING
DIM n AS DWORD

FileName = APP_SCRIPTPATH + "test.txt"

FileHandle = FILE_OPEN(FileName, "BINARY")

n = FILE_Seek(FileHandle, 8)

Char = FILE_GET(FileHandle, 1)

Msgbox 0, Char

n = FILE_CLOSE (FileHandle)


you should get a message box that show the number 8.

[ErosOlmi]

Created specific forum for FILE module.

Thanks for the help Abraxas ;)

Ciao
Eros

[sandyrepope]

Thanks, Abraxas. I understand now. No wonder my program was acting up. My file_seek was off by one. Now it works like it should.

Thanks
Sandy

[Michael Clease]

No problem.

One tip I would give you is, if you cant work out how to use a keyword or think you are using it incorrectly, make a small bit of code like I did, just to prove it. That way you can seperate it from you main code which could be quite large.

thanks