Needing a little help - Problem with Files

[leoisl]

Hi All,

I searched through google but couldn't find an answer. My doubt is how to put the EOF mark in any place of a file. What I'm supposing seems like to put a NULL mark ('\0') in the middle of a string in order to "eliminate" all the others characters after it.

Example:
You have these data on a input file:

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 <EOF>

Now, I have to make a program to eliminate the last number and save the output in the same file as the input. In other words, if I use the above input file in my program, the input file after it ran should be:

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 <EOF>

Obviously, I eliminated the last number (10).

The real problem is that I wanted just to move the EOF mark before the number 10, so I eliminate it. This would be the output of my program

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 <EOF> 10

which in my mind would finally result in

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 <EOF>

The problem of eliminating the last number was just an example. What I really want to know is if I can move the EOF mark to any place in a file.[/code]

thanks in advance and forgive me if I did any english mistake

[lnr]

To leoisl

EOF is always at the last.

If the (m.txt )file content is like this

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4
6
7
567 3 3 5




7
7 8 3


5


Running this code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
   freopen("m.txt","r",stdin);
   char ch;
   int i,c;
   c=0;
   while(cin>>i)
   {
      ++c;
      cout<<i<<' ';
      if(c%20==0)
         cout<<endl;
   }
   cout<<endl;
   return 0;
}


Output:

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4 6 7 567 3 3 5 7 7 8 3 5


Thanks all.

[mf]

Your code doesn't seem to do what the op wanted.

Resizing an existing file is what ftruncate()/truncate() do.