Sets the file pointer to a position in the file counted from the end of the file.
Category: | External File |
Returned data type: | Integer |
Note: | The returned value is a Boolean value where 1= success and 0 = error. |
fileobject.seekend(<position>)
position
an integer specifying the number of bytes that need to be back from the end of the file. Specifying a 0 means the end of the file. This parameter can be specified as a number, field name, or expression
The seekend method moves the file pointer backwards the number of bytes that were specified, where 0 indicates the end of the file. It returns true on success otherwise false is returned.
file f
f.open("C:\filename.txt", "rw")
// write information to the end of the file
f.seekend(0)
f.writeline("This is the end ")
f.close()