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FArchiveState::Tell

Returns the current location within the backing data storage, which can possibly be passed to Seek later to restore a read/write location.

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References

Module	Core
Header	/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Public/Serialization/Archive.h
Include	#include "Serialization/Archive.h"

Syntax

virtual int64 Tell()

Remarks

Returns the current location within the backing data storage, which can possibly be passed to Seek later to restore a read/write location. If this returns -1, there is no backing data storage and Seek will not function.

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