From: Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>
Date: 2008-11-15T08:06:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding and writing to specified area in a text file

In all of my research online, the only way that I've found to do it is
to read the entire file, replace what you wanna replace, write to a new
file, then copy over the original one. I hope someone can show me a
better way.

--Aldric

Ryan Mckenzie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to find a specified keyword in a text file that I have open
> then replace the line of that keyword with some new text.  Is it
> possible do do this?
> 
> So something like:
> 
> #custom.txt
> hello world
> INSERT
> end of hello world
> 
> So INSERT would be swapped with some new text.
> 
> Thanks