Re: Counting total number of string occurence within a text file

In article <007501c0472a$b5eed2a0$39379fd4@jesus.cam.ac.uk>, team@idomaincart.com ("iDomainCart") wrote: > I'd like to open a text file using PHP, which I know how to do, and count > the number of instances of a string, which I don't know how to do! There are > in particular 6 types of string. I'd like to count the total of each and use > each total to form the data for a graph . > > 1. Is my methodology correct? ie. opening up the file first and then reading > from it? Or is there a more elegant way? It depends on the nature of the strings... Are they all "static" or more of a pattern? Do they overlap? You may find that using strtok() repeatedly will be fastest... Or maybe you need to re-read the file 6 times and do a lot of ereg_match() to get it right. -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)