Explanation of modifying data

[Tahmid]

Can anyone explain me what is the meaning of placing file pointer at the beginning of record to be modified while trying to modify data in files in c++

[weaknessforcats]

That pointer contains the address of where the file data is located.

If you don't know where the file is located, then how can you access the data?

[donbock]

How it works in C (presumably C++ is similar) ...

There are many files in your computer. Which file you are working with is controlled via a pointer to type FILE. This pointer gets its value from fopen() or freopen().

A file is made up of many bytes. Which byte you are currently working with is controlled by the stream position indicator - a secret pointer hidden in the FILE structure that you never access directly. It is initialized when you open the file; and advances as you read from or write to the file. You can also use fseek() to modify the stream position indicator.

Which kind of file pointer are you asking about?

[donbock]

Sounds like you want to modify a file.

Easiest way to do this is to read the entire input file into a memory buffer, modify the memory buffer as needed, and then write the buffer out to a new file (which might happen to have the same name as the input file).

You have to get clever if the input file doesn't fit in memory.