Bwrite » History » Revision 2
Revision 1 (Per Amundsen, 02/09/2014 12:35 PM) → Revision 2/7 (Per Amundsen, 02/09/2014 12:35 PM)
_Added in 1.9.0_ */bwrite [-t] <filename> <S> [N] <text|%var|&binvar>* 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. *Switches* -t - Treat <text|%var|&binvar> as plain text. *Parameters* <filename> - File to modify. <S> - Byte position in the file to start writing to. [N] - Byte count from <text|%var|&binvar> to write. <text|%var|&binvar> <text|%var|&binvar>* - Text/%variable/&binvar Text/variable/binvar to write to file. *Example* <pre> alias example { ;Write some text to a file at beginning of the file /bwrite file.txt 0 hello there! ;Read the binary data into binary variable &tempfile /bread $qt(file.txt) 0 $file(file.txt).size &tempfile ;Print the binary variable data as text, outputs 'Hello there!' echo -ag $bvar(&tempfile, 1-).text ;Replace "there!" with "world!" /bwrite file.txt 6 world! ;Read the binary data into binary variable &tempfile /bread $qt(file.txt) 0 $file(file.txt).size &tempfile ;Print the binary variable data as text, outputs 'Hello world!' echo -ag $bvar(&tempfile, 1-).text } </pre>