Thread: going to a certain spot in a file...

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    going to a certain spot in a file...

    wassap.
    we'll i'm working on a project right now, and i need to be able to jump to a certain spot in the file, delete the info there, and then resave the file. ex (in file itself, on hard drive):

    TOM
    JOE
    BOB
    MARY <----need to jump right to this spot, and delete this name
    JANE
    HARRY

    the only method i know is to read in the entire file, search the entire file, erase that name, then rewrite the file. this is a bit tedious. anyways, any help would be appreicated.
    thanks a lot

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    Every programming textbook includes a chapter on file processing.
    It covers sequential and random access processing. If you don't
    have a textbook or some other suitable How-To-Program book,
    you should get one. Other than that, you can start by researching seekg(), seekp(), tellg(), tellp(), the IOS class
    members for open_mode (in, out, ate, app, trunc, ...), write(),
    sizeOf(), clear(), ifstream(), ...

    hth,

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    i'll try that. thanks

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    Could you please give us a concrete example?

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