Re: Can I delete / update line inside the file ?

> I am thinking - I will take the data in an array first - change it and > flush back to file again. Is there any command to flush back the whole > array in to file (each array element will become one line) or do I need to > write one by one line ? see file() and implode() where you'll implode by "\n". Regards, Philip Olson > > > manisha > > At 04:59 AM 5/23/02 +0300, you wrote: > >Get a database working! That's definitely worth investing some time in - > >apart from the obvious speed avdantages, you'd learn a lot. > > > >About your question, AFAIK you can only do it by reading from one file and > >writing to a temp file, then moving the temp over the original - pretty > >clumsy, if you ask me... ;-) > > > >Bogdan > > > >Manisha wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have one file with following format > >> > >>No. | Name | Email | status > >>1 | Manisha | manisha@aurica.com | Pending > >>2 | Neha | neha@hotmail.com | Reject > >>3 | Aish | aish@yahoo.com | Pending > >> > >>....... > >> > >>I want to update status change against that line. e.g For sr no 1 - I > >>want to change the status from Pending to Accepted. I read about the > >>fseek / fwrite command, but did not came across the delete the line from > >>file. I believe fseek command will write a line starting from pointer but > >>will not overwrite. > >> > >>I am using PHP3 and no database is available (That's the main problem). > >>And many times I need to seek the record (line) , change it and store back. > >> > >>I may be asking some silly questions as I am very very new to PHP. Please > >>bear with me. > >> > >>Thanks in advance > >> > >>Manisha > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >