Re: ereg

> Hi, > > I am trying to use ereg to see if there is already an entry in the > httpd.conf. I tried to load the file into an array and use count in > conjunction with a for loop to ereg every line. That didn't work the file > is huge and the execution time fluked out. anyone know a good way to check > if there is an existing entry in a file. Say I want to see if domain.com > is already in the file? I imagine you would use ereg but I can't seem to > figure out a way to plow through an entire file and find it? 2 choices (off the top of my head): Use preg_match - it's faster than ereg system("grep 'entry' httpd.conf",$result_array) This will fill each line of $result_array with the lines that contain the 'entry'