Orpheus — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:23:21 +0000

oh *smacks himself* forgot to mention that

and the fact that you need to re-write the array to the file your opening.

Mark Hensler — Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:18:19 +0000

that's because arrays start with 0
so the first line would be $contents[0]

Edge — Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:55:55 +0000

Your code changed the line after the one I wanted it to, so I had to add $line--; and then it worked. Thanks!!

--Edge

Orpheus — Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:58:03 +0000

$file = "something.txt";
$line = 4;

open(file,$file);
@contents = <file>;
close(file);

$contents[$line] = "something new\n";

this will change line 4 of something.txt to the string "something new" and a line break at the end.