On Tuesday, 95/11/28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote to All about "REXX
programming..." as follows:

GG> If this is in the wrong echo, I am sorry, but this is the 
GG> only Os/2 programming echo that we get in South Africa...

Hi Graeme,

I'm sure Pete doesn't mind REXX questions. You might like to ask your
sysop (yourself?) to obtain the OS2REXX echo for you, where we
specialise in this sort of thing.

GG> I would like to know how you can edit a line in a text file with
GG> REXX. Say I have a line of 50 characters and I want to add the  time
GG> at the end of it.

Well, it's all in the preparation. If you have pre-allocated the
spaces in each record when you wrote out the file to create it, you can
use the STREAM built-in function with the SEEK command to write bytes
in the exact location within the file. Have a read of your REXX.INF on
this function.

Regards

Dave


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