php-general | 2001032

Re: [PHP] rewrite one line in file From: David Robley (huntsman <email protected>)
Date: 03/29/01

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:35, Peter Van Dijck wrote:
> How do I rewrite 1 line in a file? I got the filename and the
> linenumber. i was playing around with fwrite but to find the line I had
> to do all sorts of gymnastics, I'm sure there must be a more elegant
> way...
> thanks for any hints!
> Peter

In a nutshell, you load the file into an array containing one line per
element of the array.

You then work through the array until you find the line you want - if you
know how many lines into the file it is you can of course directly
reference the element (no_of_line -1 because the first array element is
0).

Change the info you want.

Write the changed array back to the file. Coding is left as an exercise
for the student :-) 

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