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How do you randomly access variable length fields in a text file and modify them and add new ones?
by SamReidHughes 12y ago
How do you randomly access variable length fields in a text file and modify them and add new ones?
- sklogic 12y agoWhy would I want to randomly access variable length fields in a file, to start with? It's a very niche thing to do. Filesystem driver may want to do something like this, some large scale caching proxy, probably. In most cases it's just an optimisation (like a berkeley db records backing text files such as /etc/passwd).
- SamReidHughes 12y ago> Why would I want to randomly access variable length fields in a file, to start with? It's a very niche thing to do. If by "niche" you mean every interactive website does it.
- sklogic 12y agoYes, web is a niche thing. Get over it.