reading to a certain point in a txt file

[Anon]

hello. i know this question is elementary, but i've spent the last hour and a half search through the php.net documentation, and i can't find the answer.

i'm trying to create a journal script that will read from a text file. in the text file each entry would be seperated by a certain character, something like ||| or &&&. what i want to know is, how would i write a script that would be able to seperate the entries and display the five newest ones?

thank you,
jeff

[techek]

You could use this piece of code to get a few ideas :

<?php
this could be your textfile in a string
$input = 'abc|def|ghi|jkl|mno|pqr|stu|vw|xyz|';

// splits the input at every | into an array
$data = explode('|', $input);

// find the lowest and highest element to print
$max = count($data);
$min = $max - 5;
if ($min < 0) {
$min = 0; // for safety
}

// show elements from min to max
for($element=$min; $element<$max; $element++) {
echo "Element |$element| = |".$data[$element]."<br>\n";
}

?>

If this doesn't help you or you'd like more help - feel free to contact me. I'll be watching the emails!