delete line

[drifter]

is there a way to delete a line from a file without rewriting it?

I have a 300K file with about 20000 lines - each line takes about 1.5 seconds to process. (images and such)

the problem is, this runs for hours - then it fails and It starts over.

I would like to remove a line on sucess so that the next time it runs it does not rerun the same lines.

rewriting the file that large, that many times seems like it would be really hard on the server.

Thanks
Scott

[Daniel0]

This should do what you want: [code]<?php
$line_number = 135;
$filename = "something.txt";

$lines = file($filename);

unlink($linenumber-1);

file_put_contents($filename,implode("\n",$lines));
?>[/code]