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ftruncate

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

ftruncate — Trunca un archivo a la longitud dada

Descripción

bool ftruncate ( resource $gestor , int $tamanyo )

Toma el apuntador de archivo, gestor , y trunca el archivo a la longitud tamanyo .

Lista de parámetros

gestor

El apuntador de archivo.

Note: El gestor debe ser abierto en modo de escritura.

tamanyo

El tamaño a truncar el archivo.

Note: Si tamanyo es mayor que el archivo, éste será extendido con bytes nulos.
Si tamanyo es menor que el archivo, los datos extra serán perdidos.

Valores retornados

Devuelve TRUE si todo se llevó a cabo correctamente, FALSE en caso de fallo.

Registro de cambios

Versión Descripción
PHP 4.3.3 Antes de esta versión, ftruncate() devolvía un valor integer de 1 en caso de éxito, en lugar del valor boolean TRUE.

Notes

Note: El apuntador de archivo no es modificado.

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ftruncate
mike at mikeleigh dot com
04-Jan-2007 10:30
I have produced a number of tests below which walk through my findings of the ftruncate function.  For the impatient among you ftruncate can be used to increase the size of the file and will fill the rest of the file with CHR 0 or ASCII NULL.  It can be used as a very convenient way of making a 1Mb file for instance.

Test 1
<?php
/*
  Test 1: Write "some text" to a file.
  Result: The text "some text" should be present in test_1.txt
*/
$fp = fopen('test_1.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($fp, 'some text');
?>
The first test is only here to make sure that a file can be written with some text.

Test 2
<?php
/*
  Test 2: Write "some text" to a file and ftruncate the file to 4 bytes.
  Result: The text "some" should be present in test_2.txt as the file will have been truncated to 4 bytes.
*/
$fp = fopen('test_2.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($fp, 'some text');
ftruncate($fp, 4);
?>
As expected the file has been truncated to 4 bytes.

Test 3
<?php
/*
  Test 3: Write "some text" to a file and ftruncate the file to 40 bytes.
  Result: The text "some text" should be present in test_3.txt as the file will have been truncated to 40 bytes.
*/
$fp = fopen('test_3.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($fp, 'some text');
ftruncate($fp, 40);
?>
Interestingly the file has increased from 9 bytes to 40 bytes.  The remaining 31 bytes of the file are ASCII code 0 or NULL though.

Further notes can be found here http://mikeleigh.com/links/ftruncate

fwrite> <ftell
Last updated: Tue, 27 Nov 2007
 
 
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