Re: How to truncate a file after partly overwriting it

[Marco Atzeri]

On 10/02/2014 15:02, Macy wrote:
> I defer toyour knowledge about XML files.
>
> Agree, EOF makes NO sense, unless a text file.
>
> Are you certain XML's header does NOT contain the file length?
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>
> --- address@hidden wrote:
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> > > ...snip...
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> The "header" of an XML file has no info on the file lenght, and there is
> no EOF character, unless I'm missing something obvious.

It is a markup structure so there is a tag to close the structure
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_tree.asp