Re: Moving the pointer in a file...

Figured it out: I just rewrote the first 3 lines with a few new Line Characters and place respat the Line I wanted Changed with its Variable... fputs($file, "<?\nline1\nline2....etc"); The reason I was trying to read it at first was that I had a Cookie Set at the very top and I thought it would reset this each time it rewrites it... Since my code is running on Sessions that doesn't really matter... However just for Interests Sake... Given that I was not using sessions, and I wanted the Cookie Maintained, would rewriting it to self file on each try, reset the cookie hence elongating the Cookie expiration Time? Spike... "Kondwani Spike Mkandawire" <kondwani@cs.mun.ca> wrote in message news:20020712152856.25591.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am trying to read and write to a file on Line 5 and line 5 alone... > $file = fopen($fileName, "r+"); > Places the pointer at the beginning of the file I have tried the > following... > > $line = fgets($file, 255); > $line = fgets($file, 255); > $line = fgets($file, 255); > $line = fgets($file, 255); > fputs($file, "the Line I want to write;"); > but nothing is happening... Please Help... > > Kondwani > >