Q about setPos

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Q about setPos

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I want to write a number to the very first bytes of a file. The size of the number isn't important but won't be more than ten digits.
What is the handle? Is the address 0? and is the 'from' also 0?

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Re: Q about setPos

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Go on give me a clue

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Re: Q about setPos

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Hi WingNut

a simple way is with append

regards

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Re: Q about setPos

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Thanks Stefan. I want to add data to specifically the first bytes of the file. Sort of the write equivalent of ReadStringFromFile

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Re: Q about setPos

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Hello,

I'm assuming you're using the FAT or FILE component and not the Simulation API.

Open file reads the first 512 byte sector of the file into ram.

Read Byte from buffer reads directly from the ram buffer, so you can read bytes 0 to 9 to get the first 10 characters of the file. Stores these into a string variable str[0] to str[9] and add a null termination at str[10].

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OpenFile("File.txt")
idx = 0
while (idx < 10)
{
  str[idx] = ReadByteFromBuffer(idx)
  idx = idx + 1
}
str[idx] = 0
Then convert str to an long.

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long = StringToInt$(Str)
Then do what you need to the long variable, e.g. add one and convert back into an string.

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str = ToString$(long)
You may need to padd the string with leading 0's or spaces to get it back to the right length.

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while (Length$(str) < 10)
{
  tempstr = "0" + str
  str = tempstr
}
Write byte to buffer allows you to write directly to the ram buffer so you can write bytes 0 to 9 from the string to set the first 10 characters of the file.

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idx = 0
while (idx < 10)
{
  WriteByteToBuffer(idx, str[idx])
  idx = idx + 1
}
str[idx] = 0
WriteFileSector()
Write file sector then writes the ram buffer back to the file.

Hope this helps, let us know how you're getting on.

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Re: Q about setPos

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Thanks Ben. I'll give that a go when I get another 2 issues sorted :o

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Re: Q about setPos

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So before I get into saving data to the card. Can anyone help with compiler errors I'm now getting. File attached
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Re: Q about setPos

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Update : I took out a goto component and put it back in exactly as it was and now it compiles! ;)

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Re: Q about setPos

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Hi Ben. So although i know c programming (somewhat) I'm not sure how to use this in flowcode. Is there tutorial available? I've looked and can't find anything with detail. I clearly cant just copy this and put it into a c code macro. Can variables declared in flowcode be accessed directly from a piece of c code or do they need to be declared in the block? Can you explain using your example?

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Re: Q about setPos

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Hi again Ben. The attached is what i understand but i know it doesn't work. Can you give me a pointer?
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