Re: re: Overwriting specific lines in text files withoutrewritingthe whole thing.

Bill, Drawing upon my vast php experience (1 year), I've come up with the only possible answer: I don't know. Anyone? Regards, Carroll Barrett -----Original Message----- From: Bill Rausch <bill@numerical.com> To: Carroll Barrett <cbarrett@inalt.com> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net <php-general@lists.php.net> Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] re: Overwriting specific lines in text files withoutrewritingthe whole thing. >Well I'll be a ... :-) > >I've only been using PHP for two weeks. I didn't realize those functions >existed. It appears that they would work, since there is also an fseek() >and ftell() available. If he's just got a few entries, consecutive freads >would work till you found the entry of interest. If he's got a lot, then >some random access would be useful. > >If these functions work like the ANSI C functions, then you have to be very >careful to use fflush() appropriately when doing random access in the file. >I don't see an fflush() in PHP. Does that mean it's not necessary? > >Bill > >At 8:27 AM -0700 6/27/00, Carroll Barrett wrote: >>Bill, >> >>Can't you do the same thing in php, using fopen(), fread(), >>fwrite(), flock(), fclose()? >> >>Regards, >>Carroll Barrett >--- > Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows > Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 bill@numerical.com >