Some text file questions.....

Naits · Apr 6, 2002

Hi!
1. How to get num of lines in a .txt file?
2. How to read just one line from a .txt file? __________________
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phpPete · Apr 7, 2002

Quick and dirty but it'll work for you:

Write to file:

<?php

$fn = "C:/text/FileTest2.txt";

$text = "Appended to file:\n";
$file = @fopen($fn, "w+&quot

or die("Unable to open file&quot

;

@fwrite($file, $text) or die("Write to file failed.&quot

;
$msg = "Write to file succeeded";
fclose($file);
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>File Write</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $msg; ?>
</body>
</html>

--------------------
Read from file
<?php
$file = "C:/text/FileTest2.txt";
$fp = fopen( $file, "r" );
$data = nl2br(fread( $fp, filesize( $file)));
$data = explode(":", $data );
$len = count( $data )-1;
fclose( $fp );
//echo $data[1];
echo 'Number of lines in file are: ' . $len. '<BR>';
for( $x = 0; $x < $len; $x++)
{
echo $data[$x];
}
?>
--------------------

danielhozac · Apr 8, 2002

For this purpose, the file(string filename) function comes in very handy. For example
<?php
$linearray = file("filename&quot

;
echo "There are " . sizeof($linearray) . " lines in filename.";
$line14 = $linearray[13];
echo "Line 14 contains: $line14";
?> //Daniel

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Some text file questions.....

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