Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

  ◄Contents►  ◄Index►  ◄Back►
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Returns the current position within a file.
 
LOC(filenumber%)
 
    ■ filenumber%    The number of an open file or device.
 
    ■ For binary files, LOC returns the position of the last byte read or
      written.
    ■ For random-access files, LOC returns the number of the last record
      read from or written to the file.
    ■ For sequential files, LOC returns the current byte position in the
      file, divided by 128.
 
Example:
    OPEN "TEST.DAT" FOR RANDOM AS #1
    FOR i% = 1 TO 10
       PUT #1, , i%
    NEXT i%
    SEEK #1, 2
    GET #1, , i%
    PRINT "Data: "; i%; " Current record: "; LOC(1); " Next: "; SEEK(1)
 
See Also    ◄EOF►    ◄SEEK►