How to move the file pointer to next character through "ifstream" without "getting" any character, just like "fseek" does?

Question

seekg uses ios as the second argument, and ios can be set to end or beg or some other values as shown here: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/ios/

I just want the pointer to move to the next character, how is that to be accomplished through ifstream?

EDIT Well, the problem is that I want a function in ifstream similar to fseek, which moves the pointer without reading anything.

Answer 1

ifstream fin(...);
// ...

fin.get(); // <--- move one character
// or
fin.ignore(); // <--- move one character

Answer 2

Yes. Its called seekg() as you seem to already know?

std::ifstream is("plop.txt" );

// Do Stuff

is.seekg (1, std::ios::cur);  // Move 1 character forward from the current position.

Note this is the same as:

is.get();

// or 

is.ignore();

Answer 3

Read the docs for seekg and use ios_base::cur as indicated there.