Re: Re: Reset STDIN pointer
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:22:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Reset STDIN pointer | ||
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On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:58 +0000, Curt Zirzow wrote:
> The internal STDIN pointer? there is no such thing by the name of STDIN in
> php.
Sure there is, php://stdin.
http://php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php
> According to http://php.net/reset it epxects an array not a
> file handle,
> so the error would be expected.
>
> I might be wrong but stdin is not seekable so i doubt it is even possble
> to put the file handle back to the beginning.
A file handle to php://stdin can be created with fopen().
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
rewind() works on file handles.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.rewind.php
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