RE: [PHP] appending to the begining of a file

I suppose I could go through all that. Alternativly, I was thinking about an 'insert line' command that I could write before I write the text. I hate the i-have-seen-it-done-attitude, but guestbooks (for example) usually have the newest posts listed FIRST, so believe that Perl has a function to do this. But I'm really not familiar with Perl, nor do I want to be. Dusty ----------------------------------------------- http://TerribleHost.com 50mg/php/mySQL $10month ----------------------------------------------- you could read each line of the file into an array, shift the array, add the new line to the beginning, and output the array... just a general idea > -----Original Message----- > From: Dusty Cohen [mailto:dusty@dustycohen.net] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:58 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] appending to the begining of a file > > > > Is there an append mode that starts at the BEGINNING of a file? > r+ will write over anything that's already there. For instance, > if I have the file: > All that glitters is gold > And she's buying a stairway to heaven. > > and I open the file with r+, and 'add' the text: > There's a lady who's sure > > Then the resulting file is: > There's a lady who's sure > And she's buying a stairway to heaven. > > But I want: > There's a lady who's sure > All that glitters is gold > And she's buying a stairway to heaven. > > Was this clear? Anybody have any ideas? > > Dusty > ----------------------------------------------- > http://TerribleHost.com 50mg/php/mySQL $10month > ----------------------------------------------- > > > -- > 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 >