"file" already returns an array so this would be best for that :).


Thomas

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:00:09 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Didier McGillis) wrote:

> 
> Cool I'll report back what I have found.  Question.  I have tried fopen and 
> file and was wondering for opening the file and loading it into an array 
> which one is better?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Timothy Hitchens \(HiTCHO\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "'Didier McGillis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [PHP] HELP please quickly
> >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:26:10 +1000
> >
> >You first file just requires loading into an array and you can use
> >unique array functions to remove
> >duplicates etc..
> >
> >The other files simply load into an array and use preg to strip out what
> >you want and follow the same
> >checking and removal of duplicates.
> >
> >Checkout: preg_match and array functions in the www.php.net manual.
> >
> >
> >
> >Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO)
> >Open Source Consulting
> >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Didier McGillis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:22 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [PHP] HELP please quickly
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is a brief description of what I want to do.  I want to
> > > use PHP to grab
> > > a list of numbers in one file.  Check it against a bigger
> > > file and strip the
> > > ones that match out of the bigger file, into a "holding" file.
> > >
> > >
> > > so here is what it might look like.
> > >
> > > file1.txt
> > > 456789
> > > 456790
> > > 456791
> > > 456792
> > > 456793
> > > 456794
> > > .....
> > >
> > > file2.log
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456784;name=blahblah;date=012403;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456785;name=blahblah;date=012403;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456786;name=blahblah;date=012303;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456789;name=blahblah;date=012503;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456789;name=blahblah;date=012503;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456789;name=blahblah;date=012503;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456789;name=blahblah;date=012503;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456789;name=blahblah;date=012503;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456790;name=blahblah;date=012603;
> > > some time stamp code=001;number=456791;name=blahblah;date=012703;
> > >
> > > notice there might be more then one of the same number, I
> > > only need one so I
> > > need to ignore the rest, rip out the time stamp, which is a
> > > seperate line.
> > >
> > > file3.txt
> > > code=001;number=456789;name=blahblah;date=012503;
> > > code=001;number=456790;name=blahblah;date=012603;
> > > code=001;number=456791;name=blahblah;date=012703;
> > >
> > > can anyone help, any suggestions?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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