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Selecting where to start from when reading or writing text to a file.
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Is there a way to chose where a program outputs text to a file ?(or read text from a file). As in selecting which line to start from.? Any help is welcome. 
Last edited by CodeBoy101; May 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm.
Only if the file is highly structured. seekg and seekp will position the file pointer at a specified number of bytes from the beginning of the file, but unless each line has exactly the same number of bytes, trying to place the pointer at the start of the desired line is almost impossible. A common alternative when files aren't perfectly predictable is to read the lines into a container which then makes it easier to find the desired line.
>As in selecting which line to start from.?
Sure, but unless the file is structured enough to seek, you'll have to actually read your way to the correct line. Writing is harder if you mean to insert rather than overwrite. In that case you need to save the subsequent lines and shift them over like you would insert into an array.
Sure, but unless the file is structured enough to seek, you'll have to actually read your way to the correct line. Writing is harder if you mean to insert rather than overwrite. In that case you need to save the subsequent lines and shift them over like you would insert into an array.
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I mean to overwrite, but how does seekg and seekp work?
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What if I want to read:
a character.
a string.
In that order.
a character.
a string.
In that order.
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Does the infile consist of strings and characters jumbled?
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Originally Posted by Narue 
>As in selecting which line to start from.?
Sure, but unless the file is structured enough to seek, you'll have to actually read your way to the correct line. Writing is harder if you mean to insert rather than overwrite. In that case you need to save the subsequent lines and shift them over like you would insert into an array.
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