Re: Distinct Items in an Array

Here you go Sir: <?php $fp = fopen('./file.txt', 'r'); $temp_array = null; while (!feof($fp)) { $date = fgets($fp,4096); $date = explode('-', $date); $temp_array[$date[0]] += 1; } fclose($fp); foreach ($temp_array AS $key=>$value) { echo "$key -> $value <br />"; # $key is numeric value of month, $value is the amount of occurances in the file. $store_array[] = "$key"; for ($i = 1; $i < $value; $i++) { array_push($store_array, null); } } print_r($store_array); ?> And the file (file.txt): 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 01-01-2003 02-01-2003 02-01-2003 02-01-2003 02-01-2003 02-01-2003 03-01-2003 04-01-2003 04-01-2003 04-01-2003 04-01-2003 04-01-2003 04-01-2003 04-01-2003 Regards, Peter "Pod" Pistorius (Poor, unemployed, student in South Africa) peterp@podbox.co.za