Strange character appear when i truncate a text file

[Americanhorizon]

Hi, when i attempo to truncate a file to 0 and write some text inside it, i've a strange problem

This is the code

$errors=fopen("error_links.txt", "r+");
$leggiErr=fread($errors, filesize("error_links.txt"));
$videoArray = explode("\n", $leggiErr);

ftruncate($errors,0);
fwrite($errors, "lol");


And this is the result:
������������������������������������������������������������������lol


What are this series of "�" ?? Note that i've deleted a lot of it, they are much more!

[seandisanti]

why truncate? just open for r instead of r+, do what you need to, then close file and reopen with w and write what you want.

[Americanhorizon]

i want to open file and delete all his contents

[seandisanti]

which

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$new_erros=fopen("error_links.txt", "w");


accomplishes

[Americanhorizon]

i will do this thanks,
but would be useful in future know why the first method generate all those strange character

[seandisanti]

I am sure that reading through the comments on php.net/fopen may shed more light on the problem, but since there was a working solution i didn't bother trying too hard to recreate failure conditions, sorry.