fputs(str, fp);

But, you may need to watch the string lengths...

Alan

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Hi,

After using fgetpos to store the location of a line of text in a file, I
then used fsetpos to return to that line of text. I now want to
overwrite this line with a new line of text. How do I do it?

Thanking you in anticipation,

John.

Groovy hepcat John Baker was jivin' on Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:51:18 +1000
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  Well, you can't. At least, you can't portably. You'll have to copy
the file to a new file up to the line you want to replace, write the
new line, then copy the rest of the file. After that, remove the
original file and rename to new one to the original's name.
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Certainly it is possible within the confines of standard C.
I always believed that fopen() with "r+" mode was intended for
precisely this purpose.

To the OP: make sure you open the file with fopen("myfile","r+")
and you can then overwrite any part with any of the standard stream
writing functions. It is probably a good idea to use fflush() before
executing another stream read function.

Malcolm Kay