Thread: File IO

  1. #1
    Anirban Ghosh
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Posts
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    File IO

    I have created a file(file.dat) and have written the following 3 lines.Later i want to delete the second line in the following way-but this is not happening. When i open the file some garbage is being shown and i see no lines which was written at the starting.May i know where i am wrong?

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
        ofstream fout("file.dat",ios::out);
        fout << "Sunanda 5 \n";
        fout << "Rahool 10 \n";
        fout << "Sunetra 12 \n";
        fout.close();
        
        ofstream fapp("file.dat",ios::out);
        fapp.seekp(23);
        int i = 0;
        while(i < 11)
        {
                fapp << '\b';
                i++;
        }        
        fapp.close();
        system("pause");                   
    }

  2. #2
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    Thera are a couple of mistakes in your code.
    First of all
    Code:
    ofstream fapp("file.dat",ios::out);
    truncates the file. So the following code operates on an empty file.
    you would have to use
    Code:
    ofstream fapp("file.dat",ios::out|ios::app);
    In that case the file would not be cleared when opened.
    But I guess that the effect would still not be what you want. Your code would just append a series of backspace characters to the end of the file.
    If you want to remove a line from the file you have to read in the complete file and write it again without the line that you want to remove.
    Kurt

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