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Re: Creating/saving/appending to files the Cocoa way
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Re: Creating/saving/appending to files the Cocoa way


  • Subject: Re: Creating/saving/appending to files the Cocoa way
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:36:39 -0800
  • Thread-topic: Creating/saving/appending to files the Cocoa way

>
> So another question on this...looking at NSFileHandle, it doesn't look like
> there's a good way to say "set the file pointer to <location> and start
> writing *there*" other than slurping up the existing contents of the file,
> re-writing them back, then adding in the new data.
>
> Is this a correct reading of the docs?

It is not. Had it been, I would not have recommended NSFileHandle as "the
Cocoa way" to append. Simply use the seek... commands to position the file
pointer. No slurping occurs. m.

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