Re: Saving an array as a file

Here is are two ways ... <? // way 1 $file = '/path/to/file' $fp = fopen($file,'r'); $contents = fread($fp,filesize($file)); $array_of_lines = explode("\n",$contents); fclose($fp); // way 2 $fp = fopen($file,'r'); while(!feof($fp)){ $line = trim(fgets($fp,4096)); $array_of_lines[] = $line; } fclose($fp); ?> --Joe On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:04:33PM -0600, Jeff Demel wrote: > Okay, here's my last dumb newbie question for today - maybe. > > I see how to use file() to open a text file as an array of strings with each > line an array element. That's great. So I make my changes with whatever > code to one or more array elements. Now, um, what do I do to save the > changes back to the file? > > Example (not exactly what I'm really doing, but way simplified for clarity): > > //open file as an array > $arrTextFile = file("test.txt"); > //modify array > $arrText[0] = ereg_replace("this","that",$arrText[0]); > $arrText[1] = ereg_replace("this other","that other",$arrText[1]); > //save modified array back to test.txt file > ??so what goes here?? > > Maybe there's a better way to do this, I don't know. But I need to find a > way to 1)find a specific line in a file (by matching a string value), modify > a different portion of that line only - replacing part of the string with > something else, and then saving the file. > > TIA > > -Jeff > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."