mtell

binary file management

Calling Sequence

mtell([fd])

Arguments

:fd scalar. The fd parameter returned by the function mopen. -1

stands for last opened file. Default value is -1.

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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 check 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 open 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 write a character string in a file
• mscanf
• mseek set current position in binary file.
• mtell binary file management
• mdelete deletes file(s)