title File Position in Append Mode | Microsoft Docs ms.custom ms.date 11/04/2016 ms.reviewer ms.suite ms.technology cpp-language ms.tgt_pltfrm ms.topic article dev_langs C++ helpviewer_keywords file pointers [C++], append mode ms.assetid fca94e95-907c-4703-ad7d-2fcac1592168 caps.latest.revision 6 author mikeblome ms.author mblome manager ghogen translation.priority.ht cs-cz de-de es-es fr-fr it-it ja-jp ko-kr pl-pl pt-br ru-ru tr-tr zh-cn zh-tw File Position in Append Mode ANSI 4.9.3 Whether the file position indicator of an append mode stream is initially positioned at the beginning or end of the file When a file is opened in append mode, the file-position indicator initially points to the end of the file. See Also Library Functions