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mtell

binary file management

Calling Sequence

mtell([fd])

Arguments

fd

a scalar: a file descriptor returned by the function mopen. -1 stands for last opened file. Default value is -1.

Description

The function mtell returns the offset of the current byte relative to the beginning of the file associated with the named stream fd.

See Also

  • mclose — closes an opened file
  • meof — checks if end of file has been reached
  • mfprintf — converts, formats, and writes data to a file
  • fprintfMat — writes a matrix in a file
  • mfscanf — reads input from the stream pointer stream (interface to the C fscanf function)
  • fscanfMat — reads a matrix from a text file
  • mget — reads byte or word in a given binary format and converts to a double type
  • mgetstr — reads a character string from a file
  • mopen — opens a file in Scilab
  • mprintf — converts, formats, and writes data to the main scilab window
  • mput — writes byte or word in a given binary format
  • mputstr — writes a character string in a file
  • mseek — sets current position in a binary file
  • mdelete — deletes file(s)
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