.. highlightlang:: us

.. _ftell:

ftell
=====

.. index:: ftell

.. us.tag  ftell ENGLISH ffiles

:ref:`ftell` returns the current file pointer position in bytes.

.. function::  nPos = ftell(fh)

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*nPos* is the position in the file starting at 0.

.. us.params

**Parameters**

.. uparam:: fh

   Identifies the file.

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-binary-and-text-files`,
   :ref:`fopen`,
   :ref:`fseek`

:sub:`id-1147290`