Get a database working! That's definitely worth investing some time in - apart from the obvious speed avdantages, you'd learn a lot.
About your question, AFAIK you can only do it by reading from one file and writing to a temp file, then moving the temp over the original - pretty clumsy, if you ask me... ;-) Bogdan Manisha wrote: > Hi, > > I have one file with following format > > No. | Name | Email | status > 1 | Manisha | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pending > 2 | Neha | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reject > 3 | Aish | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pending > > ....... > > I want to update status change against that line. e.g For sr no 1 - I > want to change the status from Pending to Accepted. I read about the > fseek / fwrite command, but did not came across the delete the line > from file. I believe fseek command will write a line starting from > pointer but will not overwrite. > > I am using PHP3 and no database is available (That's the main > problem). And many times I need to seek the record (line) , change it > and store back. > > I may be asking some silly questions as I am very very new to PHP. > Please bear with me. > > Thanks in advance > > Manisha > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php