The /fseek command sets the read/write pointer to the specified position in the file, position starts at 0.

Synopsis

/fseek <name> <position>

Switches

• -l - sets the pointer to the beginning of the line
• -n - sets the pointer to the beginning of the next line
• -w - sets the pointer to the beginning of the line matching the wildcard expression
• -r - sets the pointer to the beginning of the line matching the regular expression

Parameters

• <name> - the name of the file handle
• <position> - not required with -n, if -l is used: a line number, if -w is used: a wildcard expression, if -r is used: a regular expression, if no switch is used, it's the position in the file (Nth bytes)

Example

/fseek myfile 42
/fseek -l myfile 12
/fseek -n
/fseek -w *findthis*
/fseek -r /findthat/

Compatibility

Added: 6.1

Added On: 29/08/2003

Note: Individual switches were not taken into consideration.

See also

• List of commands
• List of identifiers
• $fread
• $fopen
• $ferr
• $feof
• $fgetc
• /fclose
• /flist
• /fopen