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From: dave@tygra.UUCP (David Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Selective write within files
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.101710.12356@tygra.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 10:17:10 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.160905.1962@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System, Detroit, MI
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In article <1991Mar27.160905.1962@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>
>My Question:  Is there any way to just selectively take this text file, 
>delete <INSERT HERE> and then rewrite the file to a different name WITHOUT
>loading the ENTIRE file into memory and REWRITING the whole thing....?
>
>Ie, I need to search in the text file for somthing (even though I ALWAYs know
>where the thing I am looking for is), then remove that word, replace it with
>another, and then rewrite the file.
>
>Can I do it, or do I have to load the entire file into memory and then work
>with string handlers from there before rewriting.
>

Why not access it as a File of Char?  Just remember that you then have to
send the CR/LF's and EOF yourself.

Dave Conrad
dave%tygra@sharkey.cc.umich.edu
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