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TStream.GetPos

Return current position in the stream

Declaration

Source position: objects.pp line 280

function TStream.GetPos: LongInt; virtual;

Description

If the stream's status is stOk, GetPos returns the current position in the stream. Otherwise it returns -1

Errors

-1 is returned if the status is an error condition.

See also

TStream.Seek

  

Set stream position.

TStream.GetSize

  

Return the size of the stream.

Example

Program ex11;

{ Program to demonstrate the TStream.GetPos function }

Uses objects;

Var L : String;
    S : PStream;

begin
  L:='Some kind of string';
  S:=New(PMemoryStream,Init(100,10));
  Writeln ('Stream position before write: ',S^.GetPos);
  S^.WriteStr(@L);
  Writeln ('Stream position after write : ',S^.GetPos);
  Dispose(S,Done);
end.    
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