Repositions the file pointer to the beginning of a file and clears the end-of-file indicator.

#include <stdio.h>

void rewind (FILE *stream);

Parameters

stream

Pointer to FILE structure.

Remarks

A call to rewind is nearly equivalent to:

(void) fseek (stream, 0L, SEEK_SET);

rewind clears the error indicators for the stream; fseek does not. fseek returns a value that indicates whether the pointer was successfully moved; rewind does not.

You can use rewind to clear the keyboard buffer. Specify stdin, associated with the keyboard by default, as stream.

Requirements

See Also

fseek