File read/write operations

[Smoothy]

Hi all,

Can someone help me with the following issue?
I want to read/write from/to a particular position (line/character) of a
text file.
How can I do this?
In other words, how can I tell to the position indicator in a file to go to
a specific
(line/character) position in the file?
[The length of lines in the file are NOT known]
It seems that the "fseek" command is of no use in text mode.

Thanks in advance for your help. :)

[Pushkar Pradhan]

I don't think there is any magic function which will let you do that. If
you know the "keyword" then you have to parse the file to look for it's
first occurrence.
If you know that you want to read only the 10th line then you can write
fscanf to skip the first 9 lines.

Smoothy wrote:

Hi all,

Can someone help me with the following issue?
I want to read/write from/to a particular position (line/character) of a
text file.
How can I do this?
In other words, how can I tell to the position indicator in a file to go to
a specific
(line/character) position in the file?
[The length of lines in the file are NOT known]
It seems that the "fseek" command is of no use in text mode.

Thanks in advance for your help. :)

[Smoothy]

Thanks for your reply, Pushkar.

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"Pushkar Pradhan" <pu*****@gri.msstate.edu> wrote in message
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I don't think there is any magic function which will let you do that. If
you know the "keyword" then you have to parse the file to look for it's
first occurrence.
If you know that you want to read only the 10th line then you can write
fscanf to skip the first 9 lines.

Smoothy wrote:

Hi all,

Can someone help me with the following issue?
I want to read/write from/to a particular position (line/character) of a
text file.
How can I do this?
In other words, how can I tell to the position indicator in a file to go to a specific
(line/character) position in the file?
[The length of lines in the file are NOT known]
It seems that the "fseek" command is of no use in text mode.

Thanks in advance for your help. :)