working with text files

[Anon]

My goal is to be able to open up a txt file, count the number of lines in the text files, generate a random # between 0 and the number of lines there is, then print it on the screen. Im gonna see what i can find out, Thanx for any help! 🙂
PX

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file() let's you read a text into an array, putting each new line into a cell in the array.
rand() lets you pick random numbers.
srand() seeds the random-number generator, to make sure you get random numbers.

$aLines = file("filename");
echo "There are ".count($aLines)." lines in this file<BR>\n";
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$randval = rand(0,count($aLines));
echo $aLines($randval);