Weird character!!

[neofox]

Hey was hoping someone could give a little help pls 🙂

I have a piece of php that deletes the desired amount of lines from a textfile but after it deletes the first instace at the end of each line it adds a square character like ♫ but its actually a line return ("enter") so if the line delete is called 10 times it adds 9 ♫ things.

<?php

function cutline($filename,$line_no=-1)
{
	$strip_return=FALSE;
	$data=file($filename);
	$pipe=fopen($filename,'w');
	$size=count($data);

if($line_no==-1) $skip=$size-1;
else $skip=$line_no-1;
for($line=0;$line<$size;$line++)
if($line!=$skip)
	fputs($pipe,$data[$line]);
else
	$strip_return=TRUE;
	return $strip_return;
}

?>

<?php

$sum = "5";

for ( $a = 1; $a <= $sum; $a++ )
{
  cutline('textfile.txt',1);
}

?>

Hope someone can help

Thanks

Neofox

[128kb_com]

It looks as if your function 'cutline()' gets called for every line you need cut. And by looking at the code for cutline(), your parsing the file into an array with file() and opening a pipe to the file for each line you need cut.

Why not try something more like:
1. open the file
2. start loop
3. do your searching/comparison algorithm
4. delete lines you want to delete.
5. end loop
6. write and close file handle

Your currently doing:
// first iteration
1. open the file parse into aray
2. open pipe to same file
3. do stuff to data

// second iteration
1. open the file parse into aray
2. open pipe to same file
3. do stuff to data

// third iteration
1. open the file parse into aray
2. open pipe to same file
3. do stuff to data

// fourth iteration
1. open the file parse into aray
2. open pipe to same file
3. do stuff to data

// fifth iteration
1. open the file parse into aray
2. open pipe to same file
3. do stuff to data

Sorry no input on the wierd character, I would fix this first, then tackle the character.

[hand]

On which operating system are you running php?
Try opening your file with "wb" option instead of "w", I hope this works

$pipe=fopen($filename,'wb');

http://www.php3.de/manual/en/function.fopen.php