Re: the last word of a string??

on 8/12/01 2:21 AM, Mukul Sabharwal at mukulsabharwal@yahoo.com wrote: > 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)]; hmmm I tried this... it seems not to recognise the space. The sizeof($arr) is always 1. Susan --- 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