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  38 <topic id="textsbasicshared03020304xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  39 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Seek Function [Runtime]</title>
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  43 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  44 <lastedited date="2006-02-08T13:29:32">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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  48 <section id="seek">
  49 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154367"><bookmark_value>Seek function</bookmark_value>
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  51 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020304.xhp" name="Seek Function [Runtime]">Seek Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
  52 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">Returns the position for the next writing or reading in a file that was opened with the open statement.<comment>UFI: see #61750</comment></paragraph>
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  54 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">For random access files, the Seek function returns the number of the next record to be read.</paragraph>
  55 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">For all other files, the function returns the byte position at which the next operation is to occur.</paragraph>
  56 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155854" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020103.xhp" name="Open">Open</link>, <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020305.xhp" name="Seek">Seek</link>.</paragraph>
  57 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152460" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Syntax:</paragraph>
  58 <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Seek (FileNumber)</paragraph>
  59 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Return value:</paragraph>
  60 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159156" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Long</paragraph>
  61 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Parameters:</paragraph>
  62 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="11">
  63 <emph>FileNumber:</emph> The data channel number used in the Open statement.</paragraph>
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