tellp() in file handling with c++ with example

The tellp() function is used with output streams, and returns the current "put" position of the pointer in the stream. It has no parameters and return a value of the member type pos_type, which is an integer data type representing the current position of the put stream pointer.
Syntax:

pos_type tellp();

Return - Current output position indicator on success otherwise return -1.
Example 1 -

CPP

// cpp code to get the position at particular
// position using tellp() function
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    fstream file;

    // open file in read and write mode
    file.open("myfile.txt", ios::out);
    file << "geeksforgeeks";

    // print the position of the pointer in file
    cout << "the current position of pointer is :"
         << file.tellp() << endl;

    // close the open file
    file.close();
}

Output -

the current position of pointer is :-1

In the above code the tellp() returns the current position to which it point in a file.
Example 2 -

CPP

// code to add content at particular position 
// using tellp()
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    long position;
    fstream file;

    // open the file in read and write mode
    file.open("myfile.txt");

    // write content in the file
    file.write("this is an apple", 16);
    position = file.tellp();

    // set position of pointer using seekp
    file.seekp(position - 7);
    file.write(" sam", 4);
    file.close();
}

Output -

this is a sample

Here tellp() function returns the position of pointer then using seekp() function the pointer is shift back from n position here it shift 7 position back and then insert the content at that position .

tellp() in file handling with c++ with example

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