al_fseek(3)

🎀 al_fseek(3) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to al_fseek(3) from the Library Functions Manual — this whole page is serving Allegro 5 API realness, and we're talking about moving around inside a file like it's a little cursor road trip. let's go 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

al_fseek — Allegro 5 API

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_fseek(ALLEGRO_FILE *f, int64_t offset, int whence)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, this function sets the current position of the file f to a spot that's relative to whatever whence says, plus offset bytes. it's giving "teleport the file cursor, but make it relative" ✨

whence can be:

• ALLEGRO_SEEK_SET — seek relative to the beginning of the file
• ALLEGRO_SEEK_CUR — seek relative to the current file position
• ALLEGRO_SEEK_END — seek relative to the end of the file

it returns true on success and false on failure, and errno gets set to indicate the error. so if it flops, don't just vibe — check errno bestie 😭

after a successful seek, the end-of-file indicator is cleared and all pushback bytes are forgotten. like, wiped from memory, no cap 🫶

⚠️ heads up: on some platforms this function may not support large files. so keep that in mind before you try to seek into the stratosphere, okay? 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go check out al_ftell(3) and al_get_errno(3) if you wanna keep the file-positioning lore going 👑

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