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How to update a file ?

I have the situation where I have a file in which there is one certain
line of text that I have to find and replace with another line of
text.
What is the simplest way to do this ?

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andreas
Nov 16 '05 #1
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Andreas Palm <ap***@hotmail. com> wrote:
I have the situation where I have a file in which there is one certain
line of text that I have to find and replace with another line of
text.
What is the simplest way to do this ?


There are two fairly simple solutions:

1) Read the whole file into memory, a line at a time. Modify the
appropriate line, then write the whole thing back. This clearly doesn't
scale well to large files.

2) Read the file a line at a time, writing it out to another file with
appropriate modifications.

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