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Is it possible to offset a tab with fseek?

I'm trying to parse a header for an archive file and I need to skip tabs. I've been trying to use fseek() to do this, but I can't determine if it's even possible.

Here's an example, though I'm sure the syntax is incorrect:

fseek(stream, (long)"\t", SEEK_CUR);

I need to use a method to move the file pointer, because I need to skip around the file and pull the file name out of each header (making a table of the contents of an archive.)

Solution

  • No -- for fseek you specify a distance to move, not something for it to search for.

    To skip tabs, you typically read a character, and if it's a tab just ignore it and read another character.