parse from a file

swentel

Hi,
I'm logging web stats in a simple log.txt.
Right now, I'm making a script that gets several strings/$variables from the textfile.
What I want is when I find the word 'Windows 95', he counts al those words and displays the number of times this word is in the logfile. I've started writing but now I'm a bit stuck, hope someone can help me out here. I already can find the word 'windows 95' but he stops when he finds it, i've tried already with count, and so on, but haven't got a clue what to do right now. I hope someone can help me out here

this is piece of my code:

$file = 'log.txt';

$lines_array = file($file);

$lines_string = implode('', $lines_array);

?>

<head><title>Stats</title></head>
<table>

<?/* windows 95 */
 eregi("(Windows 95)", $lines_string, $win95);
 ?><tr><td>Windows 95:</td><td><? if ($win95 == "") { echo "found nothing"; } else { echo $win95[0]; } ?></td></tr>

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open the file, read it in one go using fread,
use preg_matchall to get all matches in an array.
Get the size of the array and you're done.

on unix you could simply do
$wordcount=chop(grep -c "Windows95" filename.txt);

Note: the grep command is between backticks, not quotes

sepodati

Or you could read the entire file into a variable, using fread like vincent said, then just explode and count the number of elements...

$array = explode("windows 95",$file_string);
$num = count($array) - 1;

A little different option...

---John Holmes...

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nice test: try both methods, and see which is faster.
Sometimes regexp is faster, and sometimes the PHP basic functions are faster.