I'm very very new to PHP so any help will do :-)
I want to change --
to :
in a large file. What have I done wrong?
$handle = fopen('april.log.txt', 'r');
while (!feof($handle)){
$line = fgets($handle, 1024);
$to_replace =array('--',':');
$clean = str_replace($to_replace,':',$line);
echo $line;
}
You are printing the old string:
echo $line;
You need to print the modified string:
echo $clean;
And you can change your $to_replace
to:
$to_replace = '--';
Try this:
<?php
$handle = fopen('yourfile.txt', 'r');
while (!feof($handle)){
$line = fgets($handle, 1024);
$line = str_replace('--',':',$line);
echo $line;
}
2 things:
str_replace
in $clean
instrad of $line