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Bridge : FileIO Class

position()

Description

Get the current position within the file (i.e. the location to which the next byte will be read from or written to).

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

Syntax

• file.position()

Parameters

• file: an instance of the File class (returned by FileIO.open())

Returns

unsigned long :the position within the file

See also

• seek()

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