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Truncate and Append file in C#

Hi All,

Can someone please give me some sample code that would show how to truncate one file by 512K and then append 511K back to the original file from the last 511K of a another source file. In psuedocode here is what I am trying to do:

//Get handle to the file to truncate
FileInfo f = new FileInfo("c:\\FiletoTruncate.txt");
FileStream s = f.Open(FileMode.Truncate);

// Need help here, how do I truncate by 512K?????

// Get 511K of a new file an append to file above
FileInfo appendFile = new FileInfo("c:\\getLast511K.txt");

// Need help in getting the last 511K of this and appending it to the first file

eternal_21

The System.IO.FileMode.Truncate flag opens the file for writing, but deletes all the data... it truncates the file to 0 bytes only.

I suggest that you:

1. Open the file and read all but the last 512K of data into a byte[] buffer.
2. Read the 511K Segment to another buffer.
3. Truncate the file.
4. Write the first buffer to the file.
5. Write the 511K segment to the file.

eternal_21

1.

System.IO.FileInfo truncateFileInfo;
truncateFileInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo("c:\\FiletoTruncate.txt");

System.IO.FileStream fileStream;

fileStream = truncateFileInfo.Open(System.IO.FileMode.Open);
byte[] truncateBuffer;
using(fileStream)
{
truncateBuffer = new byte[fileStream.Length - 0x80000];
fileStream.Read(truncateBuffer, 0, truncateBuffer.Length);
}

eternal_21

2. Read your 511K segment into another buffer (called appendBuffer), and then finally:

eternal_21

3., 4., 5.

fileStream = truncateFileInfo.Open(System.IO.FileMode.Truncate);
using(fileStream)
{
fileStream.Write(truncateBuffer, 0, truncateBuffer.Length);
fileStream.Write(appendBuffer, 0, appendBuffer.Length);
}

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zozig

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eternal_21,

Thanks for the quick response, this was exactly what I was looking for.

Zozgi