fseek: moves the file position pointer : fseek « stdio.h « C / ANSI-C

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2. stdio.h
3. fseek

fseek: moves the file position pointer

    

//Header file:     #include <stdio.h>  
//Declaration:     int fseek(FILE *stream, long int offset, int origin); 
//Return:          zero on success or nonzero on failure. 

//'origin' must be one of:
    
//Name       Meaning
//SEEK_SET:  Seek from start of file 
//SEEK_CUR:  Seek from current location 
//SEEK_END:  Seek from end of file 


  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>

  struct fullname {
    char firstName[40];
    char lastName[10];
  } info;

  int main(void){
    FILE *fp;

    if((fp=fopen("test", "rb")) == NULL) {
      printf("Cannot open file.\n");
      exit(1);
    }

    int client_num = 10;

    /* find the proper structure */
    fseek(fp, client_num*sizeof(struct fullname), SEEK_SET);

    /* read the data into memory */
    fread(&info, sizeof(struct fullname), 1, fp);

    fclose(fp);
  }


           
       

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