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

Glen Scott <glen@designsolution.co.uk> wrote in message news:4.3.2.7.2.20010116151340.00b1d230@212.78.70.53... > 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. That's just it, I don't know how to 'read' each line and stop.... And the first field is unique.... Sorry to be such a dummy, I'm still very new to PHP, and have never really used Perl either ;) By 'using a regular expression', do you mean that something as simple as an "if" statement might do the job? Can you help any further? Thanks for getting me this far. James.