You're developing a program that needs to frequently update specific records in a large binary file. Which file handling functions would be most useful to efficiently locate and update records?
- fseek() and fwrite()
- fread() and ftell()
- fprintf() and fscanf()
- fgetc() and fputc()
To efficiently locate and update records in a binary file, you would use fseek() to move to the desired position and fwrite() to write the updated data. The other options are not suitable for this specific task.
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