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Question by Bujjiprasad
Submitted on 7/4/2003
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Modifying a record in a text file without disturbing other record in the file.And i should not rewrite all the file. Please suggest me better solution

Answer by Guru-C
Submitted on 7/25/2003
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Use a fixed length for your record sizes. e.g, say a RECORD_LENGTH=200 Then the 0th record will be at 0 bytes in the file. nth record will be at (n x RECORD_LENGTH) in the file. You can use lseek() or fseek() to the specific location and then write only RECORD_LENGTH bytes in the file.

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