Re: =Next to last record in a file=

Anthony Ritter wrote: > I am trying to access a website that has tab delimited data and use > PHP to open the file, read from the > file for output. > > I'd like to then place this data into an array, loop through the > array and output only the next to last record. > > Is there any way to loop through the following records - there are 96 > - and keep only the *next to last last one* (which would be the most > current record) before hitting EOF. > > They store the records every 15 minutes for a 24 hour span. > > I do not need all 96 records - only the most current - or - next to > last - record. Read the file with the file function (http://www.php.net/file). This will give you an array, with each element representing a line in the original file. Pop the last element away (http://www.php.net/array_pop) twice. The second time you do this, store the element you will gain (pop will return the element it popped). There you have it... In code: <? $content = file( 'http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?format=rdb&period=1&site_no=01420500' ); array_pop( $content ); $current = array_pop( $content ); ?> HTH Erwin