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Interesting. I just got two responses which seem to contradict one another. The first makes more sense. Maybe I am asking for the impossible. A partial solution would be to know how a computer knows where it is in a file. I suppose, the complier, in a language such as C++, has some...

I would like to read a specific line of a file. Everything I have seen does it by reading the file from the top, ignoring what is read until the line of interest is reached. Is it possible to move the pointer of the reader to the line directly, say by counting the number of line end sequences...