Question

I want to start at a particular offset, write and then at some point read from that same offset and confirm I read what I wrote to the file. The file is in binary. I’m confident I need to use fseek but I may want to call a write several times prior to reading the whole file.

write(unsigned long long offset, void* pvsrc, unsigned long long nbytes)

 pFile = fopen("D:\\myfile.bin","wb"); 

 fseek(pFile,offset,SEEK_SET);   
 WriteResult = fwrite (pvsrc, 1, nbytes, pFile); 
 fclose(pFile);

Anyone see any issue with this? .. Anyone?

Answer 1

You can use ftell() to tell you your current position in the file, perform some writes and then fseek() to the starting position you got with ftell() to read the data that you wrote.