Re: Deleting charachter from a text file
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- Subject: [mg68183] Re: Deleting charachter from a text file
- From: "Giacomo Ciani" <giacomo.ciani at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:30:09 -0400 (EDT)
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If I understand correctly the function you are suggesting works with strings, while I'm dealing with streams... Thanks anyway Giacomo Adriano Pascoletti wrote: > 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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- Deleting charachter from a text file
- From: "Giacomo Ciani" <giacomo.ciani@gmail.com>
- Deleting charachter from a text file