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    Default How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    Hi All,
    i am new to Qt.

    i am creating the file in and logging some data to file every time some data is available.
    but issue is once i reach max file size defined for file and new data is available then i have to move the first line and overwrite the data in line 1 with new data i am not able to move to first line and it is appending at the last always.

    example:
    once i reach the max file size and currently the cursor position is at the end of the file then cursor position should be moved to 1st line and new data has to be replace with data in 1st line after replacing the data the cursor should be move to 2nd line in the file.
    to achieve this i am using seek() function to move to line but still i am not able to write data it is always


    How can i move to first line and overwrite the data?

    Thank you,

    Regards,
    Anamika
    Last edited by Anamika s; 23rd September 2020 at 11:13.

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    The lines are the same or different length ?
    What does it mean "i am not able to write data" ?

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    the lines are of different length.

    i mean, i am not able to reset the data at the particular line and write new data in that line.

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    The file is just a string. Since the lines have different lengths, If you want to change the content of the first line, you have to:
    1. Open a new file with a new name.
    2. Write the first line to it.
    3. Rewrite the remaining lines from the old file.
    4. Delete the old file.
    5. Rename the new file to the old name.

    In my opinion, such a solution to the log makes no sense.

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    Thank you for your response.
    i am trying to rephrase my question
    I am creating the file and logging errors into the file every time when error occurs in the system.
    I have defined 1K of file size. So when my file size reaches maximum 1K then i have to start writing the errors (text) from second line of the file (first line will be my header)
    It is like as circular way.
    I have implemented code as below (Sample code)

    QFile logFile (filePath);
    QTextStream fileOutput (&logFile);

    (void) logFile.open (QIODevice::ReadWrite | QIODevice::Append|QIODevice::Text);

    if(logFile.size() > MAX_FILE_SIZE)
    {
    fileOutput.seek(1);
    }
    fileOutput << "Data" << endl;
    }

    sample output:
    Sl Id1 Id2 Description Time
    1 0 6 unknown description 2020-09-23T13:18:27



    is there any way i can achieve this without creating new file and overwriting in same file?

    Thank you,

    Regards,
    Anamika
    Last edited by Anamika s; 23rd September 2020 at 11:19.

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    1. Only if the lines have a fixed length.
    2. fileOutput.seek(1) seeks You to the second byte in file not to the second line.

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    Thank you for your response.

    remove the old first line and insert a new first line you have to rewrite the entire file, which is a very slow operation and must be repeated for each subsequent line

    is there any other approach we can use instead of copying to achieve this ?


    Thank you in Advance.

    Regards,
    Anamika

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    no, because you can just add something to the end of the file or replace N characters with other N characters anywhere. You cannot replace 5 old characters with 10 new characters without rewriting the file.
    Therefore, I wrote that the principle of operation of this log is wrong.

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    Thanks for the help

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    Default Re: How to to overwrite lines in text file in Qt

    remove the old first line and insert a new first line you have to rewrite the entire file, which is a very slow operation and must be repeated for each subsequent line

    is there any other approach we can use instead of copying to achieve this ?
    If your file is only 1K in size, then rewriting it will be instantaneous. Your OS will probably have the entire thing cached in memory and will periodically flush it to disk on its own.

    Further, if you are only interested in 1K worth of status messages, then you might as well keep it in memory as a QStringList with a fixed size. Each time a new message comes in, you add it to the end and then write the entire thing to disk. Because a QStringList is a list containing strings of any length, once you reach the maximum size, you simply start over by replacing string[0] with the new message, then string[1], etc. until you reach max size, and start over at 0 again.
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