Strange behaviour while adding a line at

[lobobr]

Hi folks:

I'm going nuts trying to add a line of data in the beginning of a text file.

The text file looks like:

02_01
03_01
04_01

and so on. When I try to add a line so the text file becomes this:

01_01
02_01
03_01
04_01

I get the following result:

_01
03_01
04_01

Here's how I'm attepmting to do it:

$foofile = "/usr/local/.../list.txt";
$open_foo = fopen($foofile, "r+");
fputs($foofile,"$temp\n");
fclose($foofile);

As a matter of fact the application I'm building is a little more complex than this, but since I'm positive that the error is in the "add-a-line" routine...

Please I'm really confused about this. Logically this should work, shouldn't?

HELP!

Thanks in advance.

[kparker]

Logically this should work, shouldn't it?

Nope. You simply can't insert data into a text file; the only way is to rewrite the file, putting the new line first and then adding the previous content afterward.

See the following site for a description of how to do this:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~vinny/

[lobobr]

Thanks a lot, Kirk.

I was going absolutely crazy here.

Best regards,