Re: Reading specific data from a .txt file into PHP

James, The trouble is, that there are about 3000 cities in the text file. I'm

assuming that I fill use fopen(); and fread(); to open and read the files, but does anyone know of a way of singling out one line (say: CYGL 161346Z 34004KT 15SM -SN BKN011 BKN030 RMK SF6SC1 ) from the whole text file? Like if a variable, $city = CYGL, is it possible to then go to that one line in the text file and read all the information from just one line? I'm pretty confident I could then split the information up into readable variable using the split(); function :)

Assuming the first field (i.e. CYGL) is unique, just read each line and check using a regular expression whether it matches the city you require. If it matches, you can stop reading the file and do whatever you need to do with the line. Regards, Glen ----------------------------------------------------- Design Solution Limited t: +44 (0)1502 513008 f: +44 (0)1502 588622 e: info@designsolution.co.uk w: http://www.designsolution.co.uk Nouvotech House, Harbour Road, Oulton Broad, Suffolk, NR32 3LZ, UK -----------------------------------------------------