Re: the last word of a string??

Hi, here : $arr = explode($lastline, " "); that puts lastline into arr which is an array and you can use the sizeof operator to get the nth (or the last) element. print $arr[sizeof($arr)]; --- "zerosumzero@yahoo.com" <zerosumzero@yahoo.com> wrote: > So I opened a file like this: > > > $filename ="text.txt"; > $fh = fopen($filename, "r"); > > then I get the last line of the file like this: > > while (!feof ($fh)) { > $lastline = fgets($fh, 4096); > } > > > now I want the last word of $lastline ... how do I > do this? I've been > trying all kinds of things but nothing seems to be > what I need. > > I would also like to be able to get the last X words > of $lastline? > > so if > > $lastline = "I am a newbie" > > I get: "am a newbie" > > Help! > > > > > -- > susan@futurebird.com > http://futurebird.diaryland.com > > > > -- > 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 > ===== ********************************* http://www.geocities.com/mimodit ********************************* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/