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Re: Write to a certain line of a file [message #79048 is a reply to message #78957]

Fri, 20 January 2012 08:21

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On 1/19/2012 10:49 AM, Michael Galloy wrote:
>
> You are essentially treating the file as a binary file where you have
> more options, but also more responsibility for keeping things straight.
>
> Sure, this would work in the case where the new output has the exact
> same length in bytes as the old output, but if not everything is going
> to get screwed up. You could rewrite the file after the point of
> insertion to fix this, but how much is it worth it to get around writing
> this file?
>
>
> Mike

Ah, nuts! Yeah, I understand. I guess it's moot anyway because, as David
has shown, it's trivial to read/replace/rewrite a text file.

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		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 January 2012 11:02
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 19 January 2012 09:49
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Mark Piper on Thu, 19 January 2012 08:43
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Brian Daniel on Thu, 19 January 2012 04:18
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Brian Wolven on Wed, 18 January 2012 18:02
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Matt Francis on Wed, 18 January 2012 17:16
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 18 January 2012 12:08
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: natha on Wed, 18 January 2012 12:05
		Re: Write to a certain line of a file By: Mark Piper on Fri, 20 January 2012 08:21

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