Writing to the start of a file

[rubz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Reuben Firmin)]

Hi,

This may be ridiculously simple, but is there any clean way to write to the
*start* of a text file (like some guestbooks do)? I messed around with
RandomAccessFile for a bit, but it overwrote the stuff in the file. My
(imperfect but working and adequate for this particular low user situation)
is to read the file into a string buffer, write the new data using a
bufferedwriter, and then write the stuff from the string buffer after that.
But it is pretty inelegant and probably inefficient.

Anybody done this sort of thing before?

Cheers
Reuben Firmin
Internet/Java Developer, Liveonline.net
w. 212 741 3653 x19
h. 212 974 2352


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