Re: Searching a test file...

>No matter what I do, it always returns "not here" even if there is a >match....very frustrating! > >Any ideas? -snip- Looks like you are attempting to match 'user1' to "user1 26:48:59 6 logins 4:28:09 hrs/login\n", which will come up false. You'll need to either do some postprocessing on the file, to extract just the user id, or you'll need to replace your in_array() check with a loop or array_map() that compares the name you want against just the relevant portions of the line, perhaps using a function such as strstr() or preg_match() or reset(explode()). --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html