Filehandling (write)

[kuchi]

Hello!

Can anybody help me.

I have following problem!

I have a file which looks like this

xxx#xxx#xxx#yyyy!aaaa#ffff#aaaa#yyyyy! ......

I must access this file and update the information before !

How can I do that is there a possibility like filepointers??

I tried a lot out but I couldn't solve this problem.
Alex

The answers are quite nice, thanx for your help, but what I actually really want is following (maybe I expressed myself not quite good).
For example: 2#xxx#xxx#somenumber This is a complete string. There are many different strings of this. I'd like to positionate a filepointer on the before mentioned string. The primary key is in this example 2, so I can find the string. Afterwards I'd like to update the field somenumber and write back the complete string to the same position.
Is this possible and if yes how?

Thanx for helping me.
Alex

[jc94062]

Use explode() with the ! to split it into an array with two parts, then you can edit everything in the first part of the array.

[Mega]

Originally posted by jc94062
Use explode() with the ! to split it into an array with two parts, then you can edit everything in the first part of the array.

um, i think he wants to edit crap in the file before all that junk, I think anyway, his explanaition was extremely sketchy I confess

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$file = implode('', file('thefile.txt'));

$stuff = 'hmm sed stuff';

$fo = fopen('thefile.txt', 'w');
fputs($stuff.$file, $fo);
fclose($fo);

or something

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