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When I open a file in write mode, is there a way to tell it to overwrite the file completely without having to delete it with something like java? The problem I am having is that if I try to write over a file with a smaller amount of data, the old file data remains after it.

When I open a file in write mode, is there a way to tell it to overwrite the file completely without having to delete it with something like java?  The problem I am having is that if I try to write over a file with a smaller amount of data, the old file data remains after it.


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Am 17.08.2007 um 19:11 schrieb Rick Burnett:

> When I open a file in write mode, is there a way to tell it to 

> overwrite the file completely without having to delete it with 

> something like java? The problem I am having is that if I try to 

> write over a file with a smaller amount of data, the old file data 

>
> Hello!
>
> When I open a file in write mode, is there a way to tell it to  
> overwrite the file completely without having to delete it with  
> something like java?  The problem I am having is that if I try to  
> write over a file with a smaller amount of data, the old file data  
> remains after it.


Thanks! Haha, I had figured it out by trial and error. What I thought was interesting is that I tried to use the current position property and set the eof to that after I had done all my writing to the file but that didn't work. I do not understand why it wouldn't.

Thanks!  Haha, I had figured it out by trial and error.  What I thought was interesting is that I tried to use the current position property and set the eof to that after I had done all my writing to the file but that didn't work.  I do not understand why it wouldn't.

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