how to delete a line(record) from a file using php

Question

I want to delete a line which has unique id at the end of the line. how to delete the line? Is there any implementation of sed or awk in php? my file structure is as follows

1 0 * * *  echo -n "cron 1" > /www/apache/logs/error_log #1
0 */2 * * *  /home/user/test1.pl #2
1 0 * * *  echo -n "cron 2" > /www/apache/logs/error_log #3
0 */2 * * *  /home/user/test2.pl #4
1 0 * * *  echo -n "cron 3" > /www/apache/logs/error_log #5
0 */2 * * *  /home/user/test3.pl #6

in the above example unique id is at the end of each line with "#" followed by the integer id value. How to delete a line by identifying with its unique key? Thanks.

surprise! php can run external programs using `system()` function — Your Common Sense, Feb 11 '11 at 13:02
tagged your question with sed, & awk is already a **BIG minus** for cross platform — ajreal, Feb 11 '11 at 13:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '11 at 12:59

with awk, (eg deleting #4 line )

awk -v uniq="#4" '$NF!~uniq' file > temp && mv temp file

in PHP, you can iterate the file and look for the id with regex : "#\d+$", or you can split the line on whitespace and check that the last element is not the uniq number you specified.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '11 at 13:05

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Smth like

foreach($lines as $line){
    if(preg_match("/#(\d+)/$"), $line, $matches) && ($matches[1]==$drop_line_num)){
        #DON'T write line in output file
    }else{
        #write line to output file
    }
}

answered Feb 11 '11 at 13:05

seriyPS

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 13 '11 at 01:23

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With grep:

grep -v '#3$' filename

With sed:

sed -e '/#3$/d' filename

to remove only the line with a #3 at its end.

answered Feb 13 '11 at 01:23

mohit6up

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 13 '11 at 02:36

Bare PHP will do.

function removeTaggedLine ($tag, $file_name)
{
    $lines = preg_grep ("/#$tag$/", file ($file_name, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES), PREG_GREP_INVERT);
    file_put_contents ($file_name, join ("\n", $lines) . "\n");
}

removeTaggedLine ('3', 'name of the file');

how to delete a line(record) from a file using php

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