Hi all, I have a slight problem, I have a text file which I use to store member information, each member has an ID. Currently the way I am operating this is that when a new member is added I do a foreach line, to work out the number of lines and then the next line (account) recieves the next ID.
The only problem with this is that I also offer the admin the possibility to delete an ID. Now, if they do this obviously one line is removed from the text file. So when it comes to adding one you may have the following layout in the file

1|Title|Description
3|Title|Description
4|Title|Description

So if I add a new account it will recieve the ID 4. Therefor there will be two account with the same ID which will make the program fail.

Any Ideas on how i could avoid this ?

Thanks,
John

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