Re: Problems with fscanf

Hi First, if you're parsing XML files, I'd suggest using the XML modules to do so. I'm not sure what you're attempting. From the line: <ARTIST>The Communards</ARTIST> are you trying to retrieve all of it, or just "The Communards"? If the latter then try a regex and not fscanf This is a little loose on the tag matching but should do the job: $pattern = '/<\w+>(.+)<\/\w+>/'; preg_match($pattern, $line, $matches); returning the untagged data into $matches[1] and the tagged data into $matches[0] This assumes that you have only a single tagged entry per line. Niel