Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-11-06.
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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 is calculated as pos  = unit *mult  + add .

If pos is negative then it is relative to the end of the file, otherwise it's 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()