is there any way to edit a .dat file from nsis or possibly another scripting language? i know it depends on the .dat file. the one i'm interested in when opened with notepad is mostly a bunch of gibberish, but the string i want to edit shows up correctly.
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If the string you need to change is always as the same offset, you could try FileReadByte and FileWriteByte.
ReplaceInFile, and fileread...
FileRead can be found here: http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/makensis.htm#FindFirst
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wraithdu, by the same offset, do you mean the info before the string i want can't change any? not really sure what you meant. honestly i have no idea what's going on in that file; i just know there's a bunch of weird characters and mixed in on about the 4th line there is a folder path that i need to have my script change. what would you do to accomplish this? or can it be done?
Hmm, ok, I figured out how File[Read/Write]Byte works, and it's probably too cumbersome to use. I'd try ReplaceInFile first, as suggested above, and see if that works for you.