AdiIRC

_Added in 1.9.0_

*/bwrite [-tac] <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.

-a - Disables UTF-8 encoding of characters in the range 0-255, as long as the text contains no characters > 255.

-c - Chops the file at the end of the copied bytes.

*Parameters*

<filename> - File to modify.

<S> - Byte position in the file to start writing to. (zero based)

[N] - Byte count from <text|%var|&binvar> to write.

<text|%var|&binvar> - Text/%variable/&binvar to write to file.

*Example*

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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

}

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