CompuServe Messages

#deletion technique?

    05-Nov-94 16:14:12
Sb: #deletion technique?
Fm: Henry Williams 73527,1446
To: all
Hi. I think this advice will have to come from some veteran programmer. What I'm looking for is a method to erase a record from a file. I've used fwrite to enter many struct records but what do I do if I want to delete record number 3 for example? I know how to do random access to the record but can only give the present values a zero or NULL in the case of a string struct member. The problem is the empty structure still takes up space and a record number in my file. The only thing I can think of now is some difficult routine to resave the file starting from the record to delete. Is there a better way? Thanks in advance, Henry