My function isn't quite working

[vinny1]

This function isn't quite working
It should allow you to put text in a file, send
the pointer back to 0, and overwrite whatever information was already there
this is what I have so far

void SetPutPointer(std::ostream & fout, int location)
{
	fout.tellg(location,std::ios::end);//put text in the file at the location the call specifies
}

[Peter87]

tellg is used to read the position. Use seekp if you want to set the position.

[jlb]

Also tellg, seekp and most other file position functions use a streampos type not an int. A streampos type is a system/compiler defined type large enough the hold the offset to any location within the file, an int is usually not large enough to hold all the possible values.