Re: Question about a text file and foreach

Jim -- Please don't hijack threads. This message has nothing to do with calling a function in a page via GET. When you wish to ask a fewsh and unrelated question, please send a fresh and unrelated message. [I keep hearing good things about Evolution. Doesn't it have decent threading?] ..and then Jim Greene said... % % Hi All, % I have a text file that has entries like the following: % user1:mbox1: % user1:mbox2: Good enough. % % I basically do: $mboxs = `cat file | grep user1 | cut -d: -f2'; Why? % I then want to print out the data in the $mboxs variable (array) % I am trying to use foreach but it does not work.. I am assuming the data is not considered an array? Right; all you've done is create a string variable with a bunch of entries in it. % Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks I'd just fopen it, myself, rather than messing with the system call: $fh = fopen("/tmp/file",'r') ; while ( ! feof($fh) and list($user,$mbox) = explode(":",trim(fgets($fh))) ) { $mboxes[] = $mbox ; } fclose($fh) ; print_r($mboxes) ; If you want to maintain the relationship of userN to mboxN, you could instead say { $mboxes[$user] = $mbox ; } and then later address them by name instead of number. % Jim HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!