As I read some tutorial, I just get the idea to input to the file totally replace, overwrite or continue at the end.
I wonder any code that in put text in the middle like this
brown
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I want a V dog.
tgsoon2002
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Jump to PostIt's impossible to insert more or less bytes in the middle of the file. Of course, you can overwrite some bytes - that's all.
As usually, file editors create new file and write new content to it, then rename or remove the old one and rename new file with the …
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ArkM
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It's impossible to insert more or less bytes in the middle of the file. Of course, you can overwrite some bytes - that's all.
As usually, file editors create new file and write new content to it, then rename or remove the old one and rename new file with the old file name.
tgsoon2002
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so the word program somekind like that?
They load all of them, after you edit, replace the old by the new one?
ArkM
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so the word program somekind like that?
They load all of them, after you edit, replace the old by the new one?
By the way, MS Word doc file is not a text file: DOC is a (proprietary) binary format.
Yes, it's (one of) possible text editor pattern. Variants:
1. see my post above (safe method)
2. read in memory, edit then overwrite old file from the first changed point (or from the start) to the end - see your post ;)
Did you think that hard disk track is an elastic string which is capable to place additional inserted bytes into the middle of the file contents?
;)
tgsoon2002
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oh yeah you don't tell, I fogot.
So any idea about this.
I have project to change
coding<=> diagram. Some kind like edit by drag and drop bunch of code, input values, type of it.
Hope you help
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