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FileSeek

 

Description

Seeks the position for read or write operation of an on-disk or in-memory file on the server.

Returns

Returns the file position within a stream where the next file operation occurs.

Category

System functions

Function syntax

FileSeek(fileObj, pos)

See also

FileCopyFileDeleteFileExistsFileMoveFileSetAccessModeFileSetAttributeFileSkipBytes

History

ColdFusion 9: Added this function.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

fileobj

The file object.

pos

The position in a file within a stream where the following read and write operation must occur.

Example

<cfscript>
NewFile = FileOpen(ExpandPath(".") & "\test.txt","write","",true);
FileSeek(#NewFile#,0);
FileWrite(#NewFile#,"Hello World.. This is for FileOpen, FileSeek, FileSkipBytes.");
FileClose(#NewFile#);
WriteOutput("<br>Opening in Read Mode.<br>");
NewFile = FileOpen(ExpandPath(".") & "\test.txt","read","",true);
ReadFile = FileRead(#NewFile#,100);
WriteOutput("#ReadFile#<br>");
FileClose(#NewFile#);
WriteOutput("<br>Opening in Read-Write Mode.<br>");
NewFile = FileOpen(ExpandPath(".") & "\test.txt","readwrite","",true);
FileSeek(#NewFile#,2);
FileSkipBytes(#NewFile#,4);
FileWrite(#NewFile#,"Earth");
ReadFile = FileRead(#NewFile#,100);
WriteOutput("#ToString(ReadFile)#<br>");
FileClose(#NewFile#);
</cfscript>

 

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