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

check the manual for fgets() function. then you can maybe explode() the string using " " (space) as separator. Pavel ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Holloway" <james@towntalk.co.uk> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >