getting variables out of this,,

[Anon]

alright, say I have this file called blahblah.txt

which contains the following:

BWLIMIT=99999999999999
DNS=bo.com
DNS1=billing.bo.com
LANG=english
MAXFTP=500
MAXLST=500
MAXPOP=500
MAXSQL=500
MAXSUB=500
OWNER=root
PLAN=default

RS=iconic

How can I figure out what OWNER is equal too? meaning like make $owner equal to this..

(note: the value of the things will always be a different length.)

[Anon]

Read the file line by line, then explode() each line by = (if this is exactly how the file is set up).

Now you've got 2 variables just check the first one for the value "OWNER" and then use what is in the second one for whatever you need to use it for.

[hessian]

$disfile = fopen("blah.txt", "r");
while($line = fgets($disfile, 255))
{
if(eregi("^owner", $line))
{

$line = explode("=", $line);
break;
}
}
echo $line[0];
echo $line[1];

$line[0] will be the owner
$line[1] will be the value

Just adding to what rob said. Hope this helps.