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rewind

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

rewind — Rewind the position of a file pointer

Description

bool rewind ( resource $handle )

Sets the file position indicator for handle to the beginning of the file stream.

Note: If you have opened the file in append ("a" or "a+") mode, any data you write to the file will always be appended, regardless of the file position.

Parameters

handle

The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen().

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

See Also



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MagicalTux at kinoko dot fr
26-Nov-2007 10:53
Note that rewind($fd) is exactly the same as fseek($fd, 0, SEEK_SET)

rewind() just moves the location inside the file to the beginning, nothing more. Check if your stream is "seekable" before planning to use fseek/rewind.
berndt at www dot michael - berndt dot de
05-May-2005 12:27
evan at ozhiker dot no_spam dot com
05-Aug-2004 08:56
As with fseek(), the rewind() function may not be used on file pointers returned by fopen() if they use the "http://" or "ftp://" formats.

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