I need to take the end off of a file. What I mean is that I have a file, and it has an end marker, but I can't write past the end marker. Is there a way to do this?
jackmaverick1 -4 Junior Poster
thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster
Can you re-phrase your question, please?
jackmaverick1 -4 Junior Poster
Sure!
I need to find a way to take the end off of a file. The file has an end marker that will prevent my program from reading past it. In short, I need to take the end off a file, and replace it with a new string.
hfx642
Append???
This would move the EoF to the end (again).
jackmaverick1 -4 Junior Poster
Yes, but I have my own sort of EOF marker, and I need to input my new string just before that marker.
hfx642
Well... If it's your own EoF "marker", then you should be able to read it.
thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster
OK, here's the design.
[Exception Trap begin]
Open a BufferedReader to the original file.
Open a BufferedWriter to a temporary file.
Loop through each line of the file testing for the custom end of file marker.
If not found, write the line to the temp file.
If found, write the NEW CONTENT to the temp file and write custom EOF in temp file.
Close the temp file.
Close the original file.
Delete original file.
Rename temp file to original file name.
[Exception Trap end]
jackmaverick1 -4 Junior Poster
I like it. That's not what I wanted to do, but it'll work!
Thank you!
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