How can i write some text to a file’s particular line using <fstream> header? Is there any function to do that? Thank you.
How can i write some text to a file’s particular line using <fstream> header?
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How can i write some text to a file’s particular line using <fstream> header? Is there any function to do that? Thank you.
You can’t really do that because the line you write might be longer than then one that exists. So you would clobber a line or have to rewrite the whole file.
If the lines are all exactly the same length, you could do binary writing.
[Edit: the following line was mistakenly added, it’s for .NET only]
If you can, use File.ReadAllLines and File.WriteAllLines.