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TIOStream.Seek

Set the stream position

Declaration

Source position: iostream.pp line 40

public function TIOStream.Seek(

  const Offset: Int64;

  Origin: TSeekOrigin

):Int64; override;

Arguments

Offset

  

Byte offset to position the stream on

Origin

  

Where to start the byte offset

Function result

New position of the stream.

Description

Seek overrides the standard Seek implementation. Normally, standard input, output and stderr are not seekable. The TIOStream stream tries to provide seek capabilities for the following limited number of cases:

Origin=soFromBeginning
If Offset is larger than the current position, then the remaining bytes are skipped by reading them from the stream and discarding them, if the stream is of type iosInput.
Origin=soFromCurrent
If Offset is zero, the current position is returned. If it is positive, then Offset bytes are skipped by reading them from the stream and discarding them, if the stream is of type iosInput.

All other cases will result in a EIOStreamError exception.

Errors

An EIOStreamError exception is raised if the stream does not allow the requested seek operation.

See also

EIOStreamError

  

Error thrown in case of an invalid operation on a TIOStream.


Documentation generated on: Nov 14 2015