# std::fgetpos

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< cpp‎ | io‎ | c

Defined in header `<cstdio>` |  |
int fgetpos( std::FILE* stream, std::fpos_t* pos ); |  |

Obtains the file position indicator and the current parse state (if any) for the file stream `stream` and stores them in the object pointed to by `pos`. The value stored is only meaningful as the input to std::fsetpos.

### Parameters

stream | - | file stream to examine
pos | - | pointer to a fpos_t object to store the file position indicator to

### Return value

​0​ upon success, nonzero value otherwise. Also sets errno on failure.

### Example

| This section is incomplete Reason: no example

### See also

ftell | returns the current file position indicator (function)
fseek | moves the file position indicator to a specific location in a file (function)
fsetpos | moves the file position indicator to a specific location in a file (function)

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