Editing Files: Help!

[ttrium]

Ok, so this is probably the easist question ever posted, but I
honestly can't find the answer (if there is one).

How do I (by which function) add data to a file at the beginning of a
file, rather than the end of the file (as is with fopen(file, "a"))?

[Rik]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:10:10 +0200, ttrium <ar*****@gmail.comwrote:

Ok, so this is probably the easist question ever posted, but I
honestly can't find the answer (if there is one).

How do I (by which function) add data to a file at the beginning of a
file, rather than the end of the file (as is with fopen(file, "a"))?

You cannot 'prepend' data. You'll have to fetch the content, write your
new content to the beginning of the file, and then add the old content.
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Rik Wasmus

[ttrium]

On Jul 30, 8:15 pm, Rik <[e-mail]:

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:10:10 +0200, ttrium <[e-mail]:

Ok, so this is probably the easist question ever posted, but I
honestly can't find the answer (if there is one).

How do I (by which function) add data to a file at the beginning of a
file, rather than the end of the file (as is with fopen(file, "a"))?

You cannot 'prepend' data. You'll have to fetch the content, write your
new content to the beginning of the file, and then add the old content.
--
Rik Wasmus

Is there a simpler way by using databases?

[Jerry Stuckle]

ttrium wrote:

Ok, so this is probably the easist question ever posted, but I
honestly can't find the answer (if there is one).

How do I (by which function) add data to a file at the beginning of a
file, rather than the end of the file (as is with fopen(file, "a"))?

Two ways:

1. Open the file, read it all into memory, truncate the file, write the
new data followed by the old data.

2. Open the file, open a temporary file, write the new data to the
temporary file, copy the data from the original file to the temporary
file, close both files. delete the original file and rename the
temporary file.

#2 is obviously more work, but it doesn't require lots of memory to read
a large file into memory, and won't lose the file if the system crashes
in the middle.

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