I managed this bit of code, but I doubt it does exactly what you want, but it's a start. And just to add to it I couldn't get the preg_match to work - so that needs sorting. I'm at work, so I'm afraid I can't spend any more time right now on this. If anyone can help on the preg_match bit (it just needs to compare/match 2 strings) then could you add to this ? I looked at the preg_match function on the php site, but I couldn't make head nor tail of it :o/
Good luck with it Nick <?php // load file1.txt into array $file1 = file ('./file1.txt'); // open file2.log for read only $file2 = fopen ("./file2.log", "r"); // open results.txt for write $results = fopen ("./results.txt", "w"); while (!feof($file2)) { $buffer = fgets($file2, 4096); foreach ($file1 as $line_num => $line) { //if (preg_match ("/$line/", "$buffer")) <- CAN'T GET THIS TO WORK ;o( { fwrite ($results, $buffer); } } } ?> -----Original Message----- From: Didier McGillis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 January 2003 14:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] HELP please quickly Cool. Thanks for the information. I try and organize my thoughts like that as well. I dont really need to delete anything, mostly move and copy. One problem I have run into is my second file seems to be too big. In just doing a simple count the first file was fine, found my 470 lines. The second file is 7.1MB and seems to fail telling me "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 81 bytes)" So it seems to be on hurrdle at a time. >From: "Clarkson, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [PHP] HELP please quickly >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:15:32 -0000 > > >I'm pretty new to PHP so I can't help you with the code per se, but how >about as an outline; > >Open the first file and read values into an array. >Open the 2nd file and read in the first line. >Compare each value in the array to see if it occurs in the line from the >2nd >file you just read in. >If it occurs then write that value to the 3rd file >Repeat until the array ends > >File functions are here -> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php >- >the only one I can't see is the ability to delete a line in a file - at >least without creating another holding file....very messy that way >tho...I'll keep looking. > >As an exercise to myself I'll try and recreate it using the 2 example files >below....dunno how long it'll take me tho ;o) > >Good luck > >Nick > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rick Emery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 22 January 2003 13:57 >To: Didier McGillis >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PHP] HELP please quickly > > >In that case, I don't know of any PHP classes to help you. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Didier McGillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:53 AM >Subject: Re: [PHP] HELP please quickly > > >No. The numbers are coming from two text files. The first text file is >the > >file that I need to compare against the second file, and if I find one >match > >in the second file, I need to move it to the third file. > > > > > > > >From: "Rick Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Rick Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Didier McGillis" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [PHP] HELP please quickly > >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:45:20 -0600 > > > >Are the numbers coming from a mysql database? If so, mysql can handle >this > >chore. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Didier McGillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:21 AM > >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? > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. 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