[Resolved] how to delete characters in text file

[parawizard]

im currently replacing the word with " " white space but id rather accually delete those characters? is there a function to do this? if not do i have to like put the rest of file in variable and rewind then fwrite it?

thanks.

[laserlight]

Replace them with nothing, then.

[parawizard]

how do i replace them with nothing? oh maybe fwrite has alength thing but its in bytes isnt it?

[parawizard]

so i find out how long the string im replacing is in bytes then add that to the fwrite length parameter?

[parawizard]

i cant find a function that gets the length of string in bytes??????

im pretty sure the number of characters and bytes arent the same?

[laserlight]

What code are you using now?

Generally, if your text file only has ASCII characters, the number of characters should be the number of bytes.

[parawizard]

yes. Im not sure thou im trying to make it with least exceptions so i just changed the structure of it a bit. its XML im editing

[Moonglobe]

$text = str_replace($word, '', $text);