Re: file management

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Can a file be truncated from the beginning, and by x amount of lines?? > Thanks > Truncated from the beginning? Do you mean truncate the file by X lines, starting from the first position in the file, well, yeah: <?php $fp = fopen("filename", "r+"); // Start counting from 0, set to one, if you want to start counting // from 1 $count = 0; while (!@feof($fp)) { // Not used, but unless your line lengths are longer than // 4K, this will effectively skip over a line $line = fgets($fp, 4096); if (++$count == $line_number_you_want) { ftruncate($fp, ftell($fp)); } } fclose($fp); ?> Please note the above is devoid of error checking :) -Sterling