write on Special line of a text file

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i will write on Special line of text file

Posted 28-Dec-13 1:41am

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OriginalGriff 28-Dec-13 7:43am

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind.
We have no idea what a "Special Line" of a text file is, or how you identify it...
Use the "Improve question" widget to edit your question and provide better information.

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The WinForms TextBox has a 'Lines Property that returns a readonly array of strings. Interestingly, the 'Lines Property, as a whole, can be assigned to.

To modify any one line of Text in a TextBox's Lines array:

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private void ModifyLine(TextBox targetTB, int lineToChange, string newLineContent)
{
    // check the supplied index
    if (lineToChange > targetTB.Lines.Length - 1) 
      throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException
      (
       "lineToChange",
       "invalid index to Lines collection of TextBox: " + targetTB.Name
      );

    // create a copy of the TextBox's Lines array
    // that can be modified (written to)
    string[] lineAry = new string[targetTB.Lines.Length];
    targetTB.Lines.CopyTo(lineAry, 0);

    // change the specified line's content
    lineAry[lineToChange] = newLineContent;

    // update the target TextBox's Lines array
    targetTB.Lines = lineAry;
}

A sample of a call to 'ModifyLine:

ModifyLine(textBox1, 2, "modified line 3");

Posted 28-Dec-13 7:51am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-28T01:53:00

Thinking about it, do you mean "Specific Line" rather than "Special Line"?
If so, then you may be disappointed.
Text files do not have "lines" as such - they are just a stream of character, where some of the characters are interpreted as line breaks by the software that reads them. You can't just "move to line 102" and write over it, because unless the text you write is exactly the same length as the text you are replacing, it will mess up the file.

If you have organised your text file as equal length lines then you can do it: just use the Seek method to a character position (line number * length of line) then write the correct number of characters, but if you haven't, then you you will have to read from your file up to the start of the line you want to replace, writing as you go to a new file, then skip the text you wish to replace in the original file and write the new text to the output file instead, then copy the rest of the input file to the output. finally, you can close both files, delete the original and rename the new file.

If you really want to deal with row based information, a text file is a poor choice: there are much better solutions out there.