Thread: Adding new records to a file using a pointer

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    Adding new records to a file using a pointer

    My program is to get 5 fields, including one called 'position' that shows the sequential position of the record in the file. If I have 5 records in the file, *.txt, the last position in that file should be 4. If i want to put a new record in it should be position 5. After I use f_open to open the file, I am not sure whether to use f_seek or f_read or both. How can I tell the pointer to point to the last record in the file to get the value of the last position? I want to use that plus 1 to put in the new data.
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    After you close a file, the last file position is lost. Therefore, you must reset it each time for appending...


    FILE *f = fopen(file, "rb+");
    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_END);
    fwrite(&data, sizeof(someStruct), 1, f);
    fclose(f);





    FILE *f = fopen(file, "rb");
    while(fread(&data, sizeof(someStruct), 1, f))
    count++;
    fclose(f);
    Code:
    #include <cmath>
    #include <complex>
    bool euler_flip(bool value)
    {
        return std::pow
        (
            std::complex<float>(std::exp(1.0)), 
            std::complex<float>(0, 1) 
            * std::complex<float>(std::atan(1.0)
            *(1 << (value + 2)))
        ).real() < 0;
    }

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