Re: Deleting charachter from a text file
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- Subject: [mg68148] Re: [mg68131] Deleting charachter from a text file
- From: Adriano Pascoletti <pascolet at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:26:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Giacomo, try StringDrop[ ..., -2] Adriano Pascoletti On 25 lug 2006, at 10:01, Giacomo Ciani wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using direct access to text files to save data my program > generates. So I use a syntax like: > > OpenWrite[file]; > WriteString[file,"text"]; > ... > WriteString[file,"text2"]; > ... > Ecc... > Close[file] > > I would like to be able to remove some characters (i.e. the last two > characters) from the file before writing new ones (as an example, I > could need to remove the "xt" character of the word "text" before > writing the word "text2"). How can I accomplish this? I can't find any > function in the documentation to remove characters from a file... > > Thanks > > Giacomo >
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- From: "Giacomo Ciani" <giacomo.ciani@gmail.com>
- Deleting charachter from a text file