Re: Writting to files.?

Thanks for the response so far... I'm still not sure on how to get the code to start on a new line in the file (yes they are text files). Say I wrote variable1 to line one how do I get it to write the next variable to line two? Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Read To: James Bartlett Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Writting to files.? On 05-Jul-01 James Bartlett wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know how I can write and read to different lines in a file rather > than just adding to the text already on the first line of the file? > > Thanks > Assuming you're talking about text files: A. suck the whole thing up in memory, change it there, write it back out. B. open a temp, copy till the line of interest, write your change, copy remainder. mv/cp the temp to the original. C. read to line of interest, ftell(), suck remainder into memory. ftruncate(), fseek(), write your changes, write out the remainder. Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.