Thread: fseek ???

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    fseek ???

    I am learning programming and I have seen this function called fseek and the programming books describe it in quite complicated language can anyone tell me what it does in easier to understand terms Cheers Davie
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    It takes you to a certain point in a file depending on the arguments you pass it.

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    It is used with binary files for setting the file pointer to a specified position in the file for random access reading and writing.

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