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Random Access
- In the above, we read from a file an item at a
time and wrote to a file an item at a time. That access pattern is
called sequential access.
- Random access allows us to access
specific location in a file and only change those
locations.
- The term "random" means you can read and modify
any character stored at any location in the file.

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