.\" This man page is automatically generated using
.\" kayadoc2man from the Kaya development tools and the -xmldocs compile 
.\" option. Editing it directly is not encouraged.
.\" It is under the same license as the source .k file that it was
.\" generated from.
.TH "IO.fseek" "3kaya" "August 2014" "Kaya" "Kaya module reference"
.SH "NAME"
IO::fseek \- Seek to a position in a file
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B Void fseek(
\fIFile h, Int p\fP
.B ")"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
.B "h"
A file handle
.PP
.B "p"
The byte position to seek to (if the file contains multi-byte UTF-8 characters, and is being read as a string, be aware of the problems that positioning the pointer part way through a multi-byte character may cause)
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Seek to the specified byte of the file. Files opened with the
\fBAppend \fP
file mode will always have writes occur at the end of the file, though this function will affect reading.
.SH "AUTHORS"
Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/
.SH LICENSE
The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
.SH "RELATED"
.PD 0
.PP
.B "IO.fpos"(3kaya)
.PD 0.4v