brian dsouza

brian dsouza

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move to a specified location in a text file and overwrite

Mar 30 2016 9:39 PM
hi guys
i have a text file with the contents as follows
code:x:y
2346:1:0
3456:2:6
2345:3:7
4567: 4:1
3456:5:3 
i need to read from beginning of file and check if "4567"is present in file ,if present i need to move to that matched row 'y' column and increment the value....that is increment 1 in my above file and write it back in the same location.
 
please help
thanks 

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