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Borland C++ 3.1 › <stdio.h>

rewind

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Repositions a file pointer to the beginning of a stream.

Defined in header <stdio.h>

Syntax

#include <stdio.h>
void rewind(FILE  *stream);

Portability

DOSUNIXWindowsANSI CC++ only
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Remarks

rewi'indistream) is equivalent to iseek{stream, OL, SEEK_SET), except that rewind clears the end-of-file and error indicators, while fseek only clears the end-of-file indicator.

After rewind, the next operation on an update file can be either input or output.

Return value

None.

See also

Example

See fseek

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dir.h>

int main (void)
{
   FILE  *fp;
   char  *fname = "TXXXXXX", *newnaine, first;
   newname  - mktemp(fname);
   fp =  fopen(newname,"w+");
   fprintf (fp,"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") ;
   rewind (fp);
   fscanf (fp,"%c",&first) ;
   printfC'The  first character  is: %c\n",first);
   fclose(fp) ;
   remove (newname);
   return  0;
}

Differences from modern implementations

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Modern references

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Stable link: /3.1/stdio.h/rewind/ · short form /3.1/rewind/