Store Current Date in .txt file + incremented number

F_Danials

Hiya,

How do I store todays date, in a text file along with a number (starting at 1)?

If today's date is stored already inside the text file, can the number be incremented by 1?

If today's date is not already stored inside the text file, can the date be added on a new line of the text file, and the number incremented by one?

Example Text file:

Monday, 12nd, March 2008 (3)
Thursday, 03, July 2008 (39)
Saturday, 27, August 2008 (13)

leatherback

You'll ave to write a little parser yourself to do this. Easier would be to do this in a database.

bradgrafelman

As leatherback suggested, it would be much, much easier to do this with a database (e.g. only one, simple query). If you can't use a database like MySQL, you might consider something like [man]SQLite[/man] which allows you to store the DB in files anywhere you like.