Dir#tell

() -> ::Integer

tell → integer

static VALUE
dir_tell(VALUE dir)
{
    struct dir_data *dirp;
    long pos;

    GetDIR(dir, dirp);
    if((pos = telldir(dirp->dir)) < 0)
        rb_sys_fail("telldir");
    return rb_int2inum(pos);
}

Returns the current position of self; see Dir As Stream-Like:

Example

dir = Dir.new('example')
dir.tell  # => 0
dir.read  # => "."
dir.tell  # => 1

See also #seek #to_path #rewind also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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