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== Switches ==
 
== Switches ==
 
* '''-t''' - Treats everything as plain text (i.e. binary variables are not evaluated)
 
* '''-t''' - Treats everything as plain text (i.e. binary variables are not evaluated)
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* '''-c''' - Chops the file at the end of the written data (if your current binvar is 10 bytes and you write 3 bytes at position 3, the resulting binvar is 6 in lenght)
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* '''-a''' - Disables UTF-8 encoding of characters in the range 0-255, as long as the line contains no characters > 255
  
 
== Parameters ==
 
== Parameters ==

Revision as of 19:16, 7 January 2018

The /bwrite command can be used to write a specified amount of bytes from the string/buffer to a given file starting at the start_pos position.

Note: the starting position is 0, not 1.

Synopsis

/bwrite -act <filename> <start_pos> [length] <text|%var|&binvar>

Switches

  • -t - Treats everything as plain text (i.e. binary variables are not evaluated)
  • -c - Chops the file at the end of the written data (if your current binvar is 10 bytes and you write 3 bytes at position 3, the resulting binvar is 6 in lenght)
  • -a - Disables UTF-8 encoding of characters in the range 0-255, as long as the line contains no characters > 255

Parameters

  • <filename> - the file name to be modified
  • <start_pos> - the position in the file to start writing at, starts a 0
  • [length] - Length of the data to be written
  • <text|%var|&binvar> - data to be written to the file

Example

;Write some text to a file at beginning of the file
/bwrite file.txt 0 hello there!
;Replace "there!" with "world!"
/bwrite file.txt 6 world!

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v5.3
Added on: 13 Dec 1997
Note: Unless otherwise stated, this was the date of original functionality.
Further enhancements may have been made in later versions.


See also

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