RE: [PHP] HELP please quickly

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 \(HiTCHO\)" <hitcho@php.net> Reply-To: <hitcho@php.net> To: "'Didier McGillis'" <codesmoker@hotmail.com>, <php-general@lists.php.net> 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: tim@hitcho.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Didier McGillis [mailto:codesmoker@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:22 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net 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. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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