[Gambas-user] Error in file read when length is a negative value ?

[Gianluigi]

I'm afraid there is an error in your text file, the attachment here works
fine and is short.

Regards
Gianluigi

Il giorno dom 17 gen 2021 alle ore 10:03 Vinode Singh Ujlain <
ujlain at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Yes SEEK could help .,. but code becomes longer, I need to read last 5
> bytes from EOF .. I was looking at http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/read?nh
>
> *Variable* *= READ* [ *#* *Stream* *,* ] *Length* *here length can be +/-
> , +ive reads from beginning of file and -ive reads backwards from EOF. But
> that is not happening, ERROR ?*
>
>
> Warm Regards,
> Vinode Singh Ujlain
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/ujlain/
> ------------------------------
> On 17/01/21 2:25 pm, Gianluigi wrote:
>
>
>
> Il giorno dom 17 gen 2021 alle ore 08:39 Vinode Singh Ujlain <
> ujlain at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Please see attached project.
>> *read stream length* returns the same string regardless of + /- length
>> given. As per documentation , a negative length should return characters
>> from end of file
>> --
>> Warm Regards,
>> Vinode Singh Ujlain
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/ujlain/
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----
>>
>
> Hi Vinode,
> are you in search for the Seek key ?
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/seek
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
>
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