How to remove a line from text file using php without leaving an empty line

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currently I am able to remove a specific line from text file using php. However, after removing that line, there will be an empty line left behind. Is there anyway for me to remove that empty line so that the lines behind can move up? Thank you for your help.

Can you show us the method you are currently using, so we can have a starting point to improve upon please? — jsnfwlr, Sep 19 '11 at 04:24

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '13 at 07:26

     $DELETE = "the_line_you_want_to_delete";

     $data = file("./foo.txt");

     $out = array();

     foreach($data as $line) {
         if(trim($line) != $DELETE) {
             $out[] = $line;
         }
     }

     $fp = fopen("./foo.txt", "w+");
     flock($fp, LOCK_EX);
     foreach($out as $line) {
         fwrite($fp, $line);
     }
     flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
     fclose($fp);

this will just look over every line and if it not what you want to delete, it gets pushed to an array that will get written back to the file.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '15 at 13:04

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Really? I find this muuuuch easier, only one line of code:

file_put_contents($filename, str_replace($line . "\r\n", "", file_get_contents($filename)));

answered Dec 20 '15 at 13:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '11 at 06:29

0

You can improve this by setting conditions to predict errors.

<?PHP

$file = "a.txt";
$line = 3-1;

$array = file($file);
unset($array[$line]);
$fp = fopen($file, 'w+');

foreach($array as $line) 
    fwrite($fp,$line); 

fclose($fp);

?>

answered Sep 19 '11 at 06:29

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