Writing to files on exact spots

[R@m0n]

Hello everybody,

Yup, still working on my prog I am testing now to replace words in files. However, it doesn't excactly work as I want it to. I used tellg and seekp to find the spots in txt-files, and then I wrote the word to that spot. Some1 told me that it would only work good if the words are the same length (because it'll overwrite other parts if different), so that is okay, it changes 'y' to 'n'. However, it doesn't work good! it DOES write it at the good spot, but all of the text after it is erased. So for example, take this text from a textfile:

"hello world
testing
n
1234
boo"

And I made my program so that it'll change n into y, it makes the file like this:

"hello world
testing
y"

And that's it... I don't want that! How can I make sure it only overwrites the amount of bits that the word is long?

[Stoned_Coder]

read the file into memory.make the required changes and write it out to media again!
someone add this to the FAQ its become more frequent than how to clear the screen.

[Salem]

> add this to the FAQ its become more frequent than how to clear the screen
shhhh - the FAQ is meant to be a secret document, full of dark magic which only gurus are suppost to know about.

On the whole, it's pretty safe - no one reads the damn thing anyway.

[R@m0n]

Originally posted by Salem
>On the whole, it's pretty safe - no one reads the damn thing anyway.

I read it