Is it possible to edit a line in the middle of text file?

[medicalert]

Hi all,

I'm keeping a record of purchase orders my company raises by dumping them into a text file. Each purchase order has a unique number so I can fish the info up again into my GUI. Its working well, except now I would like to edit the purchase order to mark when the goods are received. Is there a way I can edit a line in the middle of a text file?

Part of me has this odd idea of sucking out all the lines in the file except the one I'm working with and re-writing them to a new file, then adding my ammended line to that.. but I'm hoping there is a cleaner way of doing this.

Any assistance is appreciated.

[Andreik]

Hi all,

I'm keeping a record of purchase orders my company raises by dumping them into a text file. Each purchase order has a unique number so I can fish the info up again into my GUI. Its working well, except now I would like to edit the purchase order to mark when the goods are received. Is there a way I can edit a line in the middle of a text file?

Part of me has this odd idea of sucking out all the lines in the file except the one I'm working with and re-writing them to a new file, then adding my ammended line to that.. but I'm hoping there is a cleaner way of doing this.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Yes. Look in help file about _FileWriteToLine().

Edited August 28, 2008 by Andreik

[medicalert]

Thank you kindly Andreik,

much obliged.

[Andreik]

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