fgetpos() is an I/O function which is used to get the current value of the file position indicator in the object pointed by the position. The function return a zero value on success, a non-zero value if an error occurs.

    int fgetpos( FILE * stream, fpos_t *position );

   #include <stdio.h>
   int main ()
    {
      FILE * str= fopen ("fgetposeg.txt","r");
      int a;
      fpos_t pos;
      a = fgetc (str);
      printf ("First character in the file is %c\n",a);
      fgetpos (str,&pos);
      fclose (str);
      return 0;
    }

    First character in the file is j

In the above example the "fgetpos()" is used to find the first character from the text file. This gives the current file position.