f_tell()

[FreeRTOS Embedded File System API]

header_file.h
long f_tell( F_FILE *pxFileHandle );
		

Return the current read/write position of an open file in the FAT file system.

Parameters:

pxFileHandle   The handle of the file being queried. The handle is returned from the call to f_open() used to originally open the file.

Returns:
-1   F_FS_THREAD_AWARE is set to 1 and a file system lock could not be obtained before F_MAX_LOCK_WAIT_TICKS elapsed.

Any other value.   The returned value is the current read/write position within the open file.

See also

f_seek()

Example usage:

void vSampleFunction( char *pcFileName, char *pcBuffer ) { F_FILE *pxFile; long lPosition; /* Open the file specified by the pcFileName parameter. */ pxFile = f_open( pcFileName, "r" ); /* Expect the file position to be 0. */ lPosition = f_tell( pxFile ); /* Read one byte. */ f_read( pcBuffer, 1, 1, pxFile ); /* Expect the file position to be 1. */ lPosition = f_tell( pxFile ); /* Read another byte. */ f_read( pcBuffer, 1, 1, pxFile ); /* Expect the file position to be 2. */ lPosition = f_tell( pxFile ); /* Close the file again. */ f_close( pxFile ); } Example use of the f_tell() API function