File reading and position question

closed account (1vf9z8AR)
Find the output of the following C++ code considering that the
binary file CLIENTS.DAT exists on the hard disk with records of 100
members.

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  class CLIENTS
{
int Cno;char Name[20];
public :
void In(); void Out();
};
void main{)
{
fstream CF;
CF.open("CLIENTS.DAT",ios:: binary| ios::in) ;
CLIENTS C;
CF.read((char*)&C,sizeof(C));
CF.read((char*)&C,sizeof(C));
CF.read((char*)&C,sizeof(C));
int POS=CF.tellg()/sizeof(C);
cout<<"PRESENT RECORD:"<<POS<<endl;
CF.close() ;
}



My attempt:
CF.tellg()/sizeof(C) tells current position of file pointer. so answer is 300

but answer is 3. how?
CF.tellg() tells you the current position in bytes. Dividing by the size of C gives you the number of records that have been read.
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