change character in file

[Boris ©avc]

How to change character in a file from 'a' to 'b' (g++, linux)?

Thanks for the pointers.
Regards,
Boris

[Victor Bazarov]

"Boris ©avc" <bo********@odis-info.com> wrote...

How to change character in a file from 'a' to 'b' (g++, linux)?

Open file for reading and writing ("direct access").
Read until found the character to change.
Position to that character.
Write the new character.
Repeat until no more characters to change are found.

Victor

[Thomas Matthews]

Boris ©avc wrote:

How to change character in a file from 'a' to 'b' (g++, linux)?

Thanks for the pointers.
Regards,
Boris

You have two choices: overwrite and new file. Since you
are changing one character to another (same size data)
you _can_ overwrite the old one. The alternative method
is to read all data that you are not interested in and
write it to a new file. Write the new value to the new
file and so on.

Look up:
fstream
seekp
seekg
tellp
tellg
istream::get
ostream::put
read
write
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