Re: Truncate a file from the beginning to the current position

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:10

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"Mehmet Caner" <mcaner40@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> SetFilePointer + SetEndOfFile
>
>Thanks for your quick answer. But is it possible to truncate a file from the 
>beginning ? 

You mean, can you say "the new content of the file is from here to the
end"?

Sorry, but no.

You'll have to create a new empty file, and copy to it the data you want
kept. The ability to change where a file ends is easy for filing systems
(and fairly vital too, when you're appending data to it in the first
place), but not for where it starts.

Alan Bellingham
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