{{fbdoc item="title" value="SEEK (Statement)"}}----
Sets the position of the next read/write operation on a file

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**Seek** [#]//filenum//, //position//
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##//filenum//##
file number of an opened a file
##//position//##
the new position for i/o operations

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Sets the position at which the next read or write operation on a file will occur.

The position is given in records if the file was opened in ##[[KeyPgRandom|Random]]## access mode, in bytes in any other case. The position is 1 based -- the first record of a file is at position 1.

The ##[[KeyPgSeekreturn|Seek]]## function is used to get the position of the next read or write operation.

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{{fbdoc item="filename" value="examples/manual/fileio/seek-statment.bas"}}%%(freebasic)
' e.g. if you want to skip to the 100th byte in the file for reading/writing:

dim f as integer

f = freefile
open "file.ext" for binary as #f

seek f, 100

close #f
%%

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- None

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- ##[[KeyPgSeekreturn|Seek (Function)]]##
- ##[[KeyPgOpen|Open]]##

{{fbdoc item="back" value="CatPgFile|File I/O Functions"}}