Read A Line with 8 bytes of data from a file

[neeru29]

Can anyone let know how to read a line with maximum of 8 bytes from a line in a file.

Let say line has 10248 bytes in one single line and same repeats for remaining lines in the file.

I need to read the first 8 bytes of a line and go on read the last 2 bytes of the line and repeat the till end of file.

Regards,
Neeru

[weaknessforcats]

Read a byte at a time into a buffer until you reach 8 or a \n.

If the \n is there, the two characters before it are the last 2 bytes of the record.

If the \n is not there, repeat the loop.

The first 8 bytes you read and the first read after a \n are the 8 lead bytes in the line.

[donbock]

You say you're reading bytes (suggesting binary file) but you also talk about a file formatted into lines (suggesting text file). What kind of file are you reading? What separates one line from another?

[neeru29]

it is text file, separated by the new line character