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Set the extraction cursor to the specified `offset`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslx_testinstream.h>`

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void
seek(std::size_t offset);
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== Description

Set the index of the next byte to be extracted from this stream to the specified `offset` from the beginning of the stream, and validate this stream if it is currently invalid. The behavior is undefined unless `offset <= length()`.

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *offset*
| byte offset from the beginning of the stream
|===


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