Re: Cross version compatible way to set the file pointer to eof
Re: Cross version compatible way to set the file pointer to eof
- Subject: Re: Cross version compatible way to set the file pointer to eof
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:01:37 +1100
On 7/12/01 11:50 AM +1000, Timothy Bates, email@hidden, wrote:
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On 7/12/01 11:26 AM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Performance-wise,
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> write "string" to f starting at eof
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> and
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> write string to f
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> seem exactly the same to me. One just takes longer to type...
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I thought the file would have to seek to the end each time? Thus I thought
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it could be slow on a big file, but I did not check. If you are right then I
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have my solution already :-)
If you said "starting at (get eof)", then it would take time (and you'd lose
a byte each time). But in this case eof seems to behave more like an
enumeration that is passed to the command to resolve internally.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden