Hello

I problem with the streams. Ihe question is, how can I read again in a
stream once I have read over the end of file. Actually I do not want
to read behind the EOF,  I want to use seekg() to go back to a known
location in the stream. But this does not work since there is an
error. So I tried the following code but it also failed

        istream is;

        <do the reading stuff>

       if(is.eof())
  clear(is.ios::eofbit);

Can anyone tell me how to get the stream back into a state that I can
read again, without having to close and open the stream again.

While we are on the subjects of streams, just a second question.
Can I open a file stream for reading an writing and then remove part
of the contents of the file by overwriting the contents of the stream.

I know this works if one wants to add something, but is there a
problem if the stream becomes smaller.
Like is it sufficent to write an EOF char at a new position?

Thanks

Frank

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