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+    <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">fgetpos</h1>            <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;stdio.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr>   <tr class="t-dcl t-until-c99"> <td> <pre data-language="c">int fgetpos( FILE          *stream, fpos_t          *pos );</pre>
+</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-until-c99">(until C99)</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-since-c99"> <td> <pre data-language="c">int fgetpos( FILE *restrict stream, fpos_t *restrict pos );</pre>
+</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c99">(since C99)</span> </td> </tr>   </table> <p>Obtains the file position indicator and the current parse state (if any) for the file stream <code>stream</code> and stores them in the object pointed to by <code>pos</code>. The value stored is only meaningful as the input to <code><a href="fsetpos" title="c/io/fsetpos">fsetpos</a></code>.</p>
+<h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <table class="t-par-begin"> <tr class="t-par"> <td> stream </td> <td> - </td> <td> file stream to examine </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> pos </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to a <code><a href="fpos_t" title="c/io/fpos t">fpos_t</a></code> object to store the file position indicator to </td>
+</tr>
+</table> <h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <p><code>​0​</code> upon success, nonzero value otherwise.</p>
+<h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
+#include &lt;assert.h&gt;
+ 
+int main(void)
+{
+    // prepare a file holding 4 values of type double
+    enum {SIZE = 4};
+    FILE* fp = fopen("test.bin", "wb");
+    assert(fp);
+    int rc = fwrite((double[SIZE]){1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4}, sizeof(double), SIZE, fp);
+    assert(rc == SIZE);
+    fclose(fp);
+ 
+    // demo using fsetpos to return to the beginning of a file
+    fp = fopen("test.bin", "rb");
+    fpos_t pos;
+    fgetpos(fp, &amp;pos);               // store start of file in pos
+    double d;
+    rc = fread(&amp;d, sizeof d, 1, fp); // read the first double
+    assert(rc == 1);
+    printf("First value in the file: %.1f\n", d);
+    fsetpos(fp,&amp;pos);                 // move file position back to the start of the file
+    rc = fread(&amp;d, sizeof d, 1, fp);  // read the first double again
+    assert(rc == 1);
+    printf("First value in the file again: %.1f\n", d);
+    fclose(fp);
+ 
+    // demo error handling
+    rc = fsetpos(stdin, &amp;pos);
+    if(rc) perror("could not fsetpos stdin");
+}</pre></div> <p>Output:</p>
+<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">First value in the file: 1.1
+First value in the file again: 1.1
+could not fsetpos stdin: Illegal seek</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3>  <ul>
+<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li>
+<ul><li> 7.21.9.1 The fgetpos function (p: 336) </li></ul>
+<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li>
+<ul><li> 7.19.9.1 The fgetpos function (p: 302) </li></ul>
+<li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): </li>
+<ul><li> 4.9.9.1 The fgetpos function </li></ul>
+</ul>         <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="ftell" title="c/io/ftell"> <span class="t-lines"><span>ftell</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> returns the current file position indicator <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span>  </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="fseek" title="c/io/fseek"> <span class="t-lines"><span>fseek</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> moves the file position indicator to a specific location in a file <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span>  </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="fsetpos" title="c/io/fsetpos"> <span class="t-lines"><span>fsetpos</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> moves the file position indicator to a specific location in a file <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span>  </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fgetpos" title="cpp/io/c/fgetpos">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>fgetpos</code> </td>
+</tr> </table>            <div class="_attribution">
+  <p class="_attribution-p">
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