Posted by Andy Jeffries on 07/25/06 16:01

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:58:59 -0700, Chung Leong wrote:
> XML and any text format is very inefficiency when up
> dates/deletions are frequent, as you have to rewrite the file
> everytime.

Actually, that's not strictly true. If your text format file has fixed
length records, you could do random writing to it if you fopen it using
"a+" access mode and then use fseek/fwrite to overwrite just the record
you're interested in. No need to rewrite the whole file every time.

Cheers,


Andy

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