No, seek does what the clib fseek function does. The only reason fseek starts with an "f" is because it belongs to the family of higher level file operations that all start with "f" – fopen, fclose, etc.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Rajn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks James for pointing it out. It did work. > Is there a need for a C++ like function fseek in that case at all? > > > On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 1:00:14 PM UTC-5, Rajn wrote: >> >> Is there an fseek in Julia which returns to an offset from the beginning >> of the buffer during a binary file read? >> Would seekstart followed by seek or skip work? I understand that stream >> is not the same as file in read()? >> Thanks >> >>
