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

Sounds like a great database application, actually. John Parker > -----Original Message----- > From: James Holloway [SMTP:james@towntalk.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:58 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Reading specific data from a .txt file into PHP > > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to write a weather script, which will display weather > conditions for areas in the UK. > > I have the data I need, which is stored in a file on another server. The > data comes in the format: > > 2001/01/16 13:50 > OOOO SCT010 BKNDPIP WYXWE Q1012 > > 2001/01/16 13:46 > CYGL 161346Z 34004KT 15SM -SN BKN011 BKN030 RMK SF6SC1 > > Where the first four characters below the dates are 4 letter codes for > cities (the script will be using metar(aviation) readings) and the rest is > the actual weather information. > > 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 :) > > Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give, > > James. > >