Java FileChannel.position()
Syntax
FileChannel.position() has the following syntax.
public abstract long position() throws IOException
Example
In the following code shows how to use FileChannel.position() method.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
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public class Main {
public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException {
RandomAccessFile randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile("test.dat", "r");
randomAccessFile.seek(1000);
FileChannel fileChannel = randomAccessFile.getChannel();
// This will print "1000"
System.out.println("file pos: " + fileChannel.position());
randomAccessFile.seek(500);
// This will print "500"
System.out.println("file pos: " + fileChannel.position());
fileChannel.position(200);
// This will print "200"
System.out.println("file pos: " + randomAccessFile.getFilePointer());
}
}
The code above generates the following result.