Overwrite Line in File with PHP

Question

What is the best way to overwrite a specific line in a file? I basically want to search a file for the string \'@parsethis\' and overwrite the rest of that line with somethi

Answer 1

I'd most likely do what Jeremy suggested, but just for an alternate way to do it here is another solution. This has not been tested or used and is for *nix systems.

$cmd = "grep '@parsethis' " . $filename;
$output = system($cmd, $result);
$lines = explode("\n", $result);
// Read the entire file as a string
// Do a str_repalce for each item in $lines with ""