Re: Simple Text Files Functions...

Hello Russell, Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 6:12:47 PM, you wrote: RPJ> Ok so Im a newbie, but I really need some help with this... RPJ> All I am trying to do is open a file of just text, replace 5 characters RPJ> that appear once in the document with a string of text that has the RPJ> variable named $string. RPJ> Here was my best try... RPJ> <? RPJ> $substring = 'my new substring'; RPJ> $fp = fopen($filename, "r") or die("sorry folks"); If you are using PHP version 4.3+, you can use file_get_contents : $text = file_get_contents($filename); RPJ> while (!feof($fp)){ $text = fread($fp, filesize($fp)); } RPJ> fclose($fp); RPJ> $fp2 = fopen($filename, "w") or die("sorry folks again"); RPJ> $string = preg_replace('/(</stories>)$/', $subsrting, $text); $subsrting should be $substring error_reporting(E_ALL); would have pointed that out RPJ> $bytes = fwrite($fp2, $string); try fputs() RPJ> fclose($fp2); RPJ> echo $bytes; ?>> -- Best regards, Burhan mailto:phplist@meidomus.com