Delete lines from a txt file

[Mickster]

I am using a news script that outputs the entered text from a textarea into a text file - each time it posts it adds the table tags etc .. Is there a way i can make php delete up until the first </table> by clicking a link. Eg . Delete news post 1 ,, post 2 etc ..

I would appreciate some help on this, and advice if it will actuly work.

[leatherback]

Hi,

You could do something like this:

Open the file, and place it in an array, and get the size:

  $fcontents = file( $cfile );
  $lines = sizeof($fcontents);

then, loop through the array untill you find the first line with </table> in it, using position:

$i=0;
while (! strpos("</table>", $cfile[$i] ))
{
$i++
}

Now you have the line which actually holds the </table> tag. Using strpos you can get the position of the tag, and read the substrin. Then you can start writing to the file again, untill you reach the end of file.

I am off to bed (midnight here), but I think you can get started with this?

It is certainly possible, but it will take some coding, I am afraid. Have a look at file and string manipulation functions in the manual.

J.

[Mickster]

Thanks for the help .. only understand half of it tho... im a bit of a newbie