Questions tagged [file-handling]

file-handling is an abstraction of common actions such as creating, opening, closing, reading, updating, writing, comparing and deleting files

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My program makes a new file but with the wrong name. How do I fix this?

import os.path def start(): if os.path.exists("new.txt") == False: Account = input('Username: ') Password_for_account = input('Password: ') all_the_content = [] all_the_content.append(Account) …
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Edit a text file in c#, the file happens to be an Illustrator (.ai) file

We have hundreds of Illustrator files that use a font that needs to be changed. I can open the Illustrator file in Notepad++, search for the font in question and replace it with the new font. The file then opens without issue in Illustrator using…
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How can I use files to store my data and access it when it is re-run(in python)?

def new_pass(): User_new = input('Enter Username: ') Pass_new = input('Enter Password: ') output_final = User_new + ' ' + Pass_new with open('new.txt', 'w') as new_folder: new_folder.write(output_final) return…
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Printing a string from a file that was read using fread() is not working properly

I am a beginner in C language and I'm trying to learn about file handling with functions such as fread() and fwrite(), but there is a problem when I read a string from a file and output it using printf("%s", var); this is the program below to test…
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How to search for a string and display of the particular string stored in txt file?

The project that I am working on is an income and expense system where there will be three options: Add income and expense of a month Search income and expense by month Display the report of a year For the first one, I asked the user to input the…
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How to create a folder of current date and time And copy some other folder in that recently made folder in python

I have tried it in Jetbrains Pycharm but it is showing an error. Here is my code from datetime import datetime import os import shutil now = datetime.now() dt=now.strftime("%d%m%Y…
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Error:- '_io.TextIOWrapper' object is not callable

I have written a code to find the roots of an equation by bisection method. I am trying to append my loop index and the difference between two solutions every iteration of the loop, but I am getting the error mentioned in the title of the…
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How does read and write function work in C++ file handling?

I'm learning file handling in c++ from internet alone. I came across the read and write function. But the parameters they take confused me. So, I found the syntax as fstream fout; fout.write( (char *) &obj, sizeof(obj) ); and fstream fin; fin.read(…
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How does a BufferedReader's read(char[]) work?

I was searching on the internet and came across this code to read files from a file and convert it into a string. But I don't understand how in.read(arr) is reading all the contents of a file at once. import java.util.Scanner; import…
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Storing file in chunks(in binary format) and retrieving it using c

I am trying to implement a distributed file system and for that I have to read files in chunks (files can be of any type image, audio, video, text, etc). `typedef struct chunk_structure{ int chunk_id; int is_last; char file_name[100]; char…
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problem in appending multiple records in a file

I am having problem with appending more records to this file. It allows me add just one record but I cannot add more than one record. And cannot figure out what is going wrong with it? void new_customer() { char ch; int flag=0; FILE…
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C++ its captures character '\n' in the end of file if i Endl, if i dont write endl, it captures last character twice

hello I am trying to write a C++ program that reads a string from a file and checks whether it is palindrome or not using file handling to Improve my File handling concepts. but it's not working fine the problem I am facing is file << palindrome; if…
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How to read multiple text files from a directory, convert them all to excel files

I have 10s of tab delimeted text files in my local directory. When I copy and paste a text file into an excel sheet, it becomes a file having 100s of columns. Now, I would like to read all the text files and convert them to corresponding excel…
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How to view saved file in external storage on phone?

I have written code for writing content and viewing pdf in flutter For writing : writeOnPdf(){ pdf.addPage( pw.MultiPage( pageFormat: PdfPageFormat.a4, margin: pw.EdgeInsets.all(32), build:…
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Python Append file should refreshed with new data

I am trying to write my output into a file what my code is doing is that its looking for matched file names and storing it into a file similary for unmatched files but the problem is when i use write it overwrites the file and when i use append on…