I have a .dat file with many lines. I need to overwrite a certain line. Let's just say I have to overwrite the 5th line of the dat file. How would I set the RandomAccessFile to overwrite at line 5 (or any line in general)? (P.S.: each line has 10 characters, if that helps)
radhasb 0 Newbie Poster
BestJewSinceJC 700 Posting Maven
I remember a discussion about this on Daniweb before. You might want to do a search for it. But I'm pretty sure the only way to do what you want is to read the file, delete it, and write what you want the file to be back to the same filename. http://www.java-tips.org/java-se-tips/java.io/how-to-use-random-access-file.html An example, but they are not trying to delete things, just append.
DotA 0 Newbie Poster
you can replace the data without deleting and creating new, read your data into a string buffer then call replace();
StringBuffer sb = yourData;
sb.replace(int start, int end, String str)
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