mtell

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)