C: Manipulating file adresswise
Hey,
I'm looking for a special fileoperation. As we know, we can open a file as FILE * and than handle it as a stream. The problem is: In that way I can write and read only at the beginning (or write at the end).
But want I want to do, is to manipulate a special point within the file.
Example:
Assume my file stars at address 0, then I want to insert my 10 byte values at offset 526, so I only overwrite byte 526-536 and let the rest of the file unchanged.
The only idea I came up with was the read the whole file, write it back into a new file (with the sections I wanted being changed) and then delete the old file and replace it with the new one. But this solution is not very elegant.
So I wonder whether there is a better solution for me.
All I need is actually an address/pointer to the beginning of the file. Using memcpy it should not be a problem to overwrite the part of the file then.
Note: I'm not talking about textfiles, but binaries.
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