Re: Searching for text in a file

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:41, Richard Kurth wrote: > I am having a problem with searching through a file for a curtain > text. Like the text below jon@tester.com does not exists in the file > but when I run this it gives me a Match at line number. > I need to run three or four names at a time through this script > to see if they are already there. But it does not seam to work. > And I can not figure out way. A small sample of the file is below. > > $fd = fopen ("virtusertable", "r"); > $line_text= "jon@tester.com"; > $count = 1; > while ($line_text = fgets($fd, 2048)) { > if ($variable = trim($line_text)) { You are assigning here - use == for comparison. > echo "Match at line number $count"; > break; > } > ++$count; > } > -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.