Re: Distinct Items in an Array

I am going to try this and see what happens. Thank you for your efforts. I will let you know the outcome. Thank again. "Peter Pistorius" <peterp@podbox.co.za> wrote in message news:20030417143507.65058.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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 > >