Re: Searching a test file...

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 9:08:25 AM, Lloyd wrote: [ snip ] LB> No matter what I do, it always returns "not here" even if there is a LB> match....very frustrating! LB> Any ideas? Echoing what Mike said (about the preprocessing), here is some code to help you out : $search = "user1"; if (!($names = file("acc.txt"))) { die("Could not open acc.txt"); } while (list($key,$val) = each($names)) { $bits = explode(" ",$val); while(list(,$line) = explode($bits)) { if ($line == $search) { echo "here"; } else { echo "whoops ... MIA"; } } } -- Regards, Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com http://www.meidomus.com