Re: Subject: making an array from data in textfile

Thanks for all the suggestions. On 7/24/06, Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media] <php@comatose.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

Message-ID: <43d6a44c0607221831l7d04b03fw4abb1e14be406c5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:31:35 -0400 From: "Dave W" <dabbaking@gmail.com> To: Php-Db <php-db@lists.php.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

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Subject: making an array from data in textfile OK, so I have this text file that holds a list of ip addresses like this: 127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1 Which are strings... You with me OK so far ? Numeric [float] values only have 1 period. There's no numeric datatype which has 3. Currently, here is my code: $file = 'ip.txt'; $fh = fopen($file, 'r'); $theData = fread($fh, filesize($file)); fclose($fh); $ips = array($theData); Since it's a numeric array, No, it isn't. It's an array of strings which has numeric indices (or keys depends what you call em) I shouldn't need quotes around the ip octets. Yes, you should : They're strings unless you use inet_pton to convert them to numeric values. When I try to echo certain parts of the array like: echo $ips[0]; It's returning the whole array. If you print_r($ips) you'll see the array structure (View -> Source if you're looking at it in a browser). My guess is your lines aren't terminated in \r\n, which PHP uses to split the lines to array values. You'll probably have to use some other method such as explode(',', $ips) to break the individual comma separated entries into a set of values. Other methods such as file_get_csv are generally more efficient than reading line by line : http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php The text file is exactly like an array so it shouldn't be a problem. It's exactly like a CSV, from the example data you provided. PS, please don't feel the need to prove it by posting the entire log file ;-) Cheers - Neil

-- Dave W