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Getting the current read position.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_istringstream.h>`

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pos_type
tellg();
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== Description

If `fail()` is not false, returns `pos_type(‐1)` to indicate failure. Otherwise returns `rdbuf()‐>pubseekoff(0,cur,in).`

[NOTE]
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This function does not count the number of characters extracted, if any, and therefore does not affect the next call to `gcount().` At variance with putback, unget and seekg, eofbit is not cleared first.

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== Return Value

A file position object.


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