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Per Amundsen, 02/09/2014 12:35 PM

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_Added in 1.9.0_
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*/bwrite [-t] <filename> <S> [N] <text|%var|&binvar>*
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Writes [N] bytes from <text|%var|&binvar> to the file starting at byte position <S> or 0, any existing information at this position is overwritten.
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*Switches*
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-t - Treat <text|%var|&binvar> as plain text.
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*Parameters*
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<filename> - File to modify.
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<S> - Byte position in the file to start writing to.
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[N] - Byte count from <text|%var|&binvar> to write.
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<text|%var|&binvar> - Text/%variable/&binvar to write to file.
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*Example*
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<pre>
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alias example {
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  ;Write some text to a file at beginning of the file
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  /bwrite file.txt 0 hello there!
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  ;Read the binary data into binary variable &tempfile
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  /bread $qt(file.txt) 0 $file(file.txt).size &tempfile
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  ;Print the binary variable data as text, outputs 'Hello there!'
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  echo -ag $bvar(&tempfile, 1-).text
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  ;Replace "there!" with "world!"
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  /bwrite file.txt 6 world!
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  ;Read the binary data into binary variable &tempfile
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  /bread $qt(file.txt) 0 $file(file.txt).size &tempfile
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  ;Print the binary variable data as text, outputs 'Hello world!'
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  echo -ag $bvar(&tempfile, 1-).text
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}
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</pre>