Re: Sorry, really stupid question...

I checked, and I am adding just "bob". Turns out to be a wacky logic problem. nicknames.txt contains this: phil\n bob\n When "bob" leaves the chatroom nicknames.txt becomes: phil\n BUT.. apparently that's not it either; the carriage return is also somehow stripped out. So instead it's this: phil so when "joe" comes on board instead of phil\n joe\n I get philjoe\n Understand? This is a complicated logic problem I can't figure out other than doing this: $stuff = fread($fileID, filesize("nicknames.txt", 100000)); if (strlen($stuff) > 0) $priorNickNewLine = "\n"; ... fputs($fileID, $priorNickNewLine . $nickname . "\n"); Phil "David Rice" <davidrice@rogers.com> wrote in message news:C1A2CB28-1A9E-11D7-B971-00050218CE10@rogers.com... > Hi Phil: > It probably does what you are asking it to do. Have you checked the > value of $nickname to see if you are setting it to "bob" or appending > "bob" to it? > i.e first time $nickname = "phil" > second time $nickname = "philbob" > > HTH > > David > On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 02:24 PM, Phil Powell wrote: > > > Honestly, what does this do: > > > > $fileID = fopen("nicknames.txt", "a") or die("Could not open > > " . $path > > . "/nicknames.txt"); > > chmod("nicknames.txt", 0755); > > fputs($fileID, $nickname . "\n"); fflush($fileID); fclose($fileID); > > > > What does it EXACTLY do? What I'm trying to do is very very simple: > > I have the nickname of "phil" and I add it to nicknames.txt as "phil" > > + "\n". The next person adds his name as "bob" + "\n". > > However, this > > happens: > > > > phil > > philbob > > > > Is it due to the way I'm adding to the file? Can someone show me how > > to append to a file properly without carrying over persistent existing > > data like what you see above, instead having it like this: > > > > phil > > bob > > > > Thanx, I'm lost here. > > > > Phil >