Re: ftruncate
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:12:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ftruncate | ||
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On Thu, March 15, 2007 4:57 am, Swati Asthana wrote:
> Is there any function in php through which we can delete / truncate
> the
> content of a text file that is before the file pointer/file handler ?
>
> can we use truncate?
> actually im using a function to pick the content from a text file
> using 2
> delimiters, but that function checks only the first instance of the
> delimiter..
If you want to chop the END of a file off, the ever-so-cleverly-named
ftruncate will do that.
http://php.net/ftruncate
If you want to chop the FRONT of a file off, I don't think you can do
that... In fact, given the way some operating systems maintain their
file catalogs, I'm almost positive you can't do that.
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