Subj : Re: CreateFile ()
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jogy
Date : Wed Jul 14 2004 01:54 pm

mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   i'm using the win32 api CreateFile () and i wanted to know how to put the
> "cursor" at a certain position. if i used c's FILE pointer i can use fseek
> () to go to a specific place in the file.
> 
>   what i'm trying to accomplish is this. i have an xml file and i want to
> calculate a crc of the file, but i don't want to include the first line of
> the file in the CRC calculation.
> 
> line 1: <test crc="0xabcdef">
> line 2:     <person name="testing" age="12"/?
> line 3         ...
> line n  </test>
> 
> i want the "cursor" to be pointed at line 2 when i begin my crc calculation.
> 
> aloha,
> mike
> 
> 

Use the SetFilePointer() or SetFilePointerEx() functions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/setfilepointer.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/setfilepointerex.asp


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