Matt,
Try something like:
<?
$fp=fopen("file_name.txt","r");
while (feof($fp))
{
$line=fget($fp,100); // grabs text to end of line or 100 characters
whichever comes first
if (!preg_match("/delete/",$line))
{
$new_line.=$line;
}
}
fclose($fp);
$fp=fopen("file_name.txt","w");
fwrite($fp,$new_line) or die ("something died in here");
fclose($fp);
?>
I didn't check this before posting so there could be some syntax issues, but
the flow is what you need. Open a file for reading, read it line by line to
find a text phrase, accumulate the lines (less the one with the phrase) in a
new variable, close the file, open it again for writing, write the text to
the file, and then close it.
Hope this helps,
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Palermo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:53 PM
Subject: [PHP] delete lines from text file
> Can anyone help me figure out how to search for a string in a text file,
> then delete the whole line of text that it occurs in?
>
> For example: I have a text file which contains the following.
>
> //****** text.txt ******
> Keep this line.
> Also keep this line.
> Delete this line.
> Keep this one too.
>
>
> Now I want to do a search on this text file for the word "delete" and if
> it finds that word, it will delete the whole line it occurs on. So
> after this, the text file will look like this one:
>
> //****** text.txt ******
> Keep this line.
> Also keep this line.
> Keep this one too.
>
> Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.
>
> Matt
>
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