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Modifying a record in a serialized flat file

C# beginner here.

I'm writing serialized records to a file, and I'm able to add and read
them back to the program no problem.

However, when I try to modify the record by reading the record,
modifying it in memory, then writing it back to the file, the file gets
written out as the NEXT file in the record.

What I want to do is "roll back" the filestream to the previous record,
so when I write it back to the file it will overwrite the entire
record. I've tried moving the filestream pointer back, but I'm not sure
how far to go back because of the addition of the serialization to the
record.

Thanks,
Steven Vallarian

Nov 6 '06 #1
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