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8. File Contents

Introduction

Reading Lines with Continuation Characters
Counting Lines (or Paragraphs or Records) in a File
Processing Every Word in a File
Reading a File Backwards by Line or Paragraph
Trailing a Growing File
Picking a Random Line from a File
Randomizing All Lines
Reading a Particular Line in a File
Processing Variable-Length Text Fields
Removing the Last Line of a File
Processing Binary Files
Using Random-Access I/O
Updating a Random-Access File
Reading a String from a Binary File
Reading Fixed-Length Records
Reading Configuration Files
Testing a File for Trustworthiness
Program: tailwtmp
Program: tctee
Program: laston
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