WriteFile and fwrite

Hello everyone,


I think there is a in-place re-write function which WriteFile supports, but fwrite does not support.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365747.aspx

Suppose I have a file, and the content is "foo is content", I want to change the content of the file to "goo is content".

If I am using WriteFile API and open with CreateFile API (generic read | write, and open existing option), I can only write one byte 'g' to replace content in-place.

But when using fwrite, there is no in-place re-write function, and I have to use "a+" mode to open a file and re-write all content "goo is content". Right?

Are there similar functions in fwrite providing in-place re-write function?


thanks in advance,
George

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...dio/fseek.html

Aren't you thinking of "w"? And have you tried?
To my experience writing to a file not being at EOF replaces characters.
I don't know what the standards has to say about it though.

yes that is correct, writing to a File before reaching EOF will replace characters in "w" mode.
The OP can use fseek as right pointed out by prog-bman!

To summarize: No, you don't have to rewrite the entire content. If you open the file in "a+" or "r+" mode, the file content is preserved, and you can use fseek to find any particular position in the file (either as a direct number of bytes from start, relative to the current position or relative the the end of the file [the latter is quite useful if you want to ADD something to the end of the file after having overwritten something in the beginning or middle of the file]).

fwrite willl just write the number of bytes you wish to write, where the current file-pointer is. The different modes of open decides whether the file is "emptied"(w) or "kept as is"(a) - and with a "+" added, it will allow both read and write. The difference between "w+", "r+" and "a+" is in the handling of the content of the file and whether the file needs to exist before you call fopen(). I believe "r+" means that writes happen at the start of the file, rather than at the end, if you don't use "fseek" to set the position.

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Mats