[sclug] C++ Quickie

[Derek M Jones]

Tim,

>I am trying to persist the place where a file is open (the 'data' file). 
>Basically I am getting an fpos_t of the current place that I am in the data 
>file and writing it to another file (my 'bookmark' file). When I read the 
>position back from the bookmark  file and want to restore my position in the
>
>data file, fscan it from the bookmark file and get it as an int. How do I 
>convert the int back to an fpos_t so that I can use it to set the filepos?

fpos_t is a type capable of holding all the information capable of
representing a position in a file.
There is no requirement that fpos_t be an integer type, or even that
the same position in a file be represented by the same value (of type
fpos_t) in two different programs (so writing it out and reading it
back in later is not required to work, although it practice it is likely to).

On some systems fpos_t is an aggregate type.  So your best bet is to
write/read it out/in using sizeof and fwrite/fread.


derek

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