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I'm working on a file converter, and I'm now stuck on a couple of conversions.

I need to add a 541 byte header to the beginning of a file without overwriting anything. For the reverse, I need to delete those 541 bytes. I'd like to do it without reading the old file and writing it into a new one. Is that possible either with this UDF or another that I don't know about yet?

If the file is small enough to read entirely to memory, then you can modify it there and write back to the same file. That doesn't allow you to verify a successful write before wiping out the old file, though. So why would you want to do it that way?

^_^

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The maximum file size would be 512KB (524,288 Bytes). I'm just looking for whatever method is the fastest for my purposes. I wasn't actually planning on checking for a successful write because I'm not expecting write errors, but I suppose I should.

I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but I'm planning to FileCopy the file that needs to be converted, and then make the edits to the copy. The original file will remain unchanged.

1. Open the new file for binary write

2. Write your binary prepending data

3. Open the old file for binary read

4. Write the old file data into the new file

5. Close both files

6. If the write was successful, delete the old file and rename the new to the old file name.

If the file doesn't get changed by other processes, then you could rename and keep the old file. Then just swapping the file name back gets the original file restored without any read/write file ops.

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This is my Fugly way of doing it.

WARNING - Overwrites target file!!!!!

So running this script on a file will add the header if not detected,

Or will remove the header if detected.

#REGION CMD
IF $Cmdline[0] <> 0 AND FileExists($Cmdline[1]) THEN
    IF _DHEAD($Cmdline[1]) THEN
        ConsoleWrite("Operations for: "& @LF & $Cmdline[1] & @LF &"Complete! ;-)")
    ELSE
        ConsoleWrite(@SCRIPTNAME &" Failure :-( "& @LF)
        EXIT 1
    ENDIF
ELSE
    ConsoleWrite(@SCRIPTNAME &" <TargetFile>"& @LF)
ENDIF
EXIT
#ENDREGION
#REGION UDF
FUNC _DHEAD($sFile)
    IF FileExists($sFile) THEN
        LOCAL CONST $vHeader = _
        "242424240000000000000000000000000000000000"& _
        "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
        LOCAL $iHlen = StringLen($vHeader)
        LOCAL $iSize = Int($iHlen / 2)
        LOCAL $hFile = FileOpen($sFile,16)
        IF $hFile = -1 THEN RETURN SetError(2,0,0)
        LOCAL $bFile = FileRead($hFile)
        IF @ERROR THEN RETURN SetError(3,0,0)
        FileClose($hFile)
        IF StringInStr(StringMid($bFile,3,$iHlen),$vHeader) THEN
            ConsoleWrite("Header found, Deleting"& @LF)
            $bFile = BinaryMid(Binary($bFile),$iSize + 1)
        ELSE
            ConsoleWrite("Header not found, Appending"& @LF)
            $bFile = "0x"& $vHeader & StringTrimLeft($bFile,2)
        ENDIF
        $hFile = FileOpen($sFile,18)
        IF $hFile = -1 THEN RETURN SetError(4,0,0)
        $bFile = FileWrite($sFile,Binary($bFile))
        FileClose($hFile)
        IF $bFile = 0 THEN RETURN SetError(5,0,0)
        RETURN 1
    ELSE
        RETURN SetError(1,0,0)
    ENDIF
ENDFUNC
#ENDREGION

Did not see your FileCopy statement.... but you get the idea! ^_^

Vlad

Edited by Mobius

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