alantodd wrote:
What would be the easiest way to open a text file, remove a line if the line begins with a word from an array of words (there are 5 words I will be looking for) then write that back to the text file with everything removed
<?php $lookfor = array('one','two','three','four','five'); $pattern = implode('|',$lookfor);
$filedata = file('yourfile.txt');
foreach($filedata as $key => $line)
{
if(preg_match("/^($pattern)/i",$line))
{ unset($filedata[$key]); }
}
$newfiledata = implode("\n",$filedata);
$fp = fopen('yourfile.txt','w');
fwrite($fp,$newfiledata);
fclose($fp);
?>Untested, but something like that. Read file into an array, loop through each line trying to match word at beginning. If there's a match, remove line, then write new data at the end.
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