Tell the current position : file pointer « File Stream « C++ Tutorial






#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
   if(argc!=4){
      cout << "Usage: change <filename> <byte> <character>" << endl;
      exit(1);
   }
   fstream out(argv[1], ios::in | ios::out | ios::binary);
   if(!out)
   {
      cout << "Cannot open file!";
      exit(1);
   }
   out.seekp(atoi(argv[2]), ios::beg);
   out.put(*argv[3]);
   cout << "Current position is: " << out.tellp() << endl;
   out.close();
}








12.6.file pointer
12.6.1.change file at given position
12.6.2.get file content at given position
12.6.3.Change a file at specific position
12.6.4.Check ofstream current marker position
12.6.5.move to position 2 in the stream and output a 0 in position 2
12.6.6.Tell the current position
12.6.7.seek and Skip
12.6.8.Test File Position
12.6.9.Seek 0 to reset the file pointer
12.6.10.seekg( ) moves the pointer offset number of characters from the specified origin
12.6.11.uses both seekp( ) and seekg( ) to reverse the first characters in a file.
12.6.12.Detecting EOF