Mauricio, If you are on a *nix computer, you could append to the end of the file, close it and then do a "tail -n1" which will give you just the last line in the file.
HTH. Regards Chris Mauricio Sthandier wrote: >I guess I should do that. >I need the plain file because is just a log of users registering in a Club, >in a csv format. >Using a database is just too much and not intended for this page... even >when I would prefer using mysql. At least, I can handle that rather than the >fopen and fwrite !. >I could append but then I need to read the first 8 chars of the last line I >appended... neither something I know how to do. >If they were fixed I could... maybe I can fill it with blank chars the line >until a given size ? > >Thanxs everyone for your replies. > >"Miguel Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi en el mensaje >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >>On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Mauricio Sthandier wrote: >> >>>I guess thist must be really silly... but how can I append text to the >>>beginning of a file ??? >>>I've been trying since a while... but all I get is overwriting !. >>> >>Open a temporary file, write your new data to it, copy the old file on to >>the end of it, remove the old file, rename the temporary file with the old >>file's name. >> >>Obviously this is not very efficient. Explore whether you really need to >>prepend. Perhaps you can append and then read the file backwards a la tac? >>Or perhaps a database is more useful. Or multiple files. >> >>miguel >> > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
