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Bridge : FileIO Class

seek()

Description

Seek to a new position in the file, which must be between 0 and the size of the file (inclusive).

This communicates with the Linux distribution through Bridge. While functionally similar to the SD library, the underlying code and connections are different.

Syntax

• file.seek(pos)

Parameters

• file: an instance of the File class (returned by FileIO.open())
• pos: the position to which to seek (unsigned long)

Returns

boolean : true for success, false for failure

See also

• position()

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