Re: there has to be a better way...

"Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com> wrote in message news:200310221924.h9MJOAq5018186@daevid... > Here is a snippet from my dhcp web page found on my site below... Not > exactly what you want, but could help you start... thanks! > // read in the dhcp_map.ini file to map MAC addresses to images > $mapFile = "./dhcp_map.ini"; > if( $fp = @fopen($mapFile, "r") ) > { > while( $line = fgets($fp, 1024) ) this pulls out 1024 bytes of data form the file. right? or does this pull UPTO 1024 bytes of data or the EOL, which ever is first? > if ($line{0} != "#") $tempMap .= $line; // strip > out # comments > } else echo "ERROR: Can't read ".$mapFile."<BR>"; > fclose ($fp); > $map = explode("\n", $tempMap); OK. $tempMap is a string var. Each line of the file has a /n delimiting it. Now make an array of these line. Right? > for($i = 0; $i < count($map); $i++) > { > list($mac, $image, $name) = preg_split("/\s/",$map[$i], -1, > PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); walk down the map array. split each element on the SPACE, but don't deal with blank lines ... seems almost the same. nice use of PREG_SPLIT. I guess that helps with the BLANK lines. if fgets() onlt pulls out so much data, not to EOL, why use it? If I understand right, if I pull out 1028 of data, the '#' on each line could be anywhere in that buffer, not just at the first character. That's why I pulled in the entire file into a string var and then exploded it into an array split on EOL characters. Am I missing something? Thanks for your sample. Walter