C Tutorial/stdio.h/fgetpos

fgetpos

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1. include <stdio.h>

Declaration int fgetpos(FILE *stream, fpos_t *position); Function stores the current file position indicator. Return returns zero on success or nonzero on failure

"fpos_t *position" is useful only in a call to fsetpos().

<source lang="cpp">#include <stdio.h>

 #include <stdlib.h>
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     FILE *fp;
     fpos_t file_loc;
     if((fp=fopen("test","r"))==NULL) {
         printf("Cannot open file.\n");
         exit(1);
     }
  
     fgetpos(fp, &file_loc);
     fclose(fp);
 }</source>