Write to line

[hyabusa]

Hey, i am trying to replace a line in a text file, say i was trying to write to line 7 of a text file, i would want to replace what is already on line 7.

Is this possible?

Thanks very much

[jmcneese]

if you load the entire file into an array, then you can reference that line via

$somearray[6] = "replacement text";

[piersk]

Im not COMPLETELY sure about this, but when you read data from a text file, each line is a seperate variable in an array i.e. if you have 7 lines of text in a file, you will have an array with 7 variables in it.

Therefore, if you want to read line, you need to get the text out of line 6 (remember arrays start at 0 rather than 1).

You can then edit that variable in the array. to put the array back into the file, you need to do a while loop and cycle through all the variables in the array and write them to a file.

Hope this (kinda) helps 🙂

[hyabusa]

Thanks