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What's a data offset?

866737Jun 5 2011 — edited Jun 5 2011
I'm not sure where to post this so im posting it here. I've been reading into Buffers and I noticed the term offset. What is an offset? Is it kind of like a pointer (points to the memory address where the data from buffer starts)? Or is it a value inside an array in the buffer where you would start copying from the buffer into a destination array? What

Could u explain by showing an example as well?
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