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Problems with ifstream::seekg and tellg

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Forum Search Links 17 May 04 01:37

I'm writing a program that requires multiple passes over a file. I've created a file input stream and when i need to save a spot i use
streampos seekPosition = fin.tellg();
This returns the proper seek position. later when i use
fin.seekg(seekPosition); it does not go back to the proper spot in the file, in fact it stays at its last spot or the one before it in the file. This is only a problem in Microsoft Visual C++, does anyone know a way around this in Visual C++ or why it only happens with MSVC++?

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