std::streamoff
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| typedef /*unspecified*/ streamoff;
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The type std::streamoff is a signed integral type of sufficient size to represent the maximum possible file size supported by the operating system. Typically, this is a typedef to long long.
It is used to represent offsets from stream positions (values of type std::fpos). A std::streamoff value of -1 is also used to represent error conditions by some of the I/O library functions.
[edit] Relationship with std::fpos
- the difference between two std::fpos objects is a value of type std::streamoff
- a value of type std::streamoff may be added or subtracted from std::fpos yielding a different std::fpos.
- a value of type std::fpos is implicitly convertible to std::streamoff (the conversion result is the offset from the beginning of the file).
- a value of type std::fpos is constructible from a value of type std::streamoff
[edit] See also
| represents absolute position in a stream or a file (class template) |
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| sets the input position indicator (public member function of std::basic_istream)
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| sets the output position indicator (public member function of std::basic_ostream)
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