strings

[blue928]

Although I'm learning php rapidly, string functions still give me a hard time. Hopefully someone else had this same situation in the past and can help me out a bit. Short and sweet I want to read through a text file, find a specific term within the text and then copy that particular term to another text file. Later these individual terms will placed into a database for reference. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

thx
blue

[terje-s]

What you describe is pretty simple. The problem, however, is to work out a method to locate the terms you are looking for. The question would be alot easier to answer if you specified the format of your original textfile. (E.g. is it comma separated values, just a 10MB document with no specific order etc.). Try to describe it, and I will try to answer your question :]

[blue928]

Sure thing! The text file is the source code of a webpage. I clicked on "view" and then "Source" in Internet explorer to pull up text source and then saved it as a text. Of course it still contains HTML. If it helps to know, the terms that I am looking for ALL fall between ">" and "<" characters. (<a href=blabla>TERMIMSEARCHINGFOR</a>) I am using fopen and fpassthru in my php code, but when I run it, the webpage shows up instead of doing what I want. I have included the php here for reference.

//$text = strip_tags(">[e-mail]<>[e-mail]");
$blue = fopen("f:\chapelhillreview.com\test.txt","r");
$text = fpassthru($blue);
$text1 = ereg_replace("<table>", ",", $text);

$text2 = ereg_replace(","," ",$text1);

$explode = explode(",", $text2);

$num = count ($explode);

for ($count = 0; $count < $num; $count++) {

if (ereg("[e-mail]$", $explode[$count], $arr)) {
echo("$arr[0]<br>");

}

}

This code shows im lost more than anything, but hope it helps. Thanks a lot foryour help.

blue