seekr¶

Purpose¶

Moves the pointer in a .dat or .fmt file to a particular row.

y = seekr(fh, r)¶

Parameters:	fh (scalar) – file handle of an open file. r (scalar) – the row number to which the pointer is to be moved.
Returns:	y (scalar) – the row number to which the pointer has been moved.

If r = -1, the current row number will be returned.

If r = 0, the pointer will be moved to the end of the file, just past the end of the last row.

rowsf() returns the number of rows in a file.

seekr(fh, 0) == rowsf(fh) + 1;

Danger

Do NOT try to seek beyond the end of a file.