getting one line from file

From: Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:27:22 +0000
Subject: getting one line from file
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I'm just learning PHP and have a question....in perl I used to do this: $info = grep "676" /tmp/somefile.txt; (i know there was only one line in the file with that number, thats why it's not @info) i need to only get one line out of this file that is very large (which is why i don't want to open it read through the file until i find the correct line)... how can i do this easily in PHP? thanks in advance! pac

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