Be warned that explode won't work as expected if any of your fields contain colons, though it doesn't look like it'll be an issue in this sort of case.
"Gaylen Fraley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Use the explode() function based on the colon. Then parse the 2nd array > element for the username that you want. If matched, display all elements in > that array row. Conversely you could use the implode() to reassemble the > array row. > [...] > > "Tom Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I want to be able to search a flat file line by line looking for data > > such as a username then display all the information in that line. Is > > there some way to search the following format: > > > > record1:username:info:info:info > > record2:username:info:info:info > > record3:username:info:info:info > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
